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The first HMAS Arunta (D130/I30) was a Tribal class destroyer built by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney and commissioned on 30 March 1942. Arunta first saw service escorting convoys along the Australian east coast and between Australia and New Guinea. From May 1943 she mainly operated as a unit of Task Force 74 and supported Allied landings in New Britain, New Guinea, the Philippines and Borneo. After the war she formed part of the Allied occupation forces in Japan and conducted a patrol off Korea shortly after the end of the Korean War. HMAS Arunta paid off to reserved in December 1956 and was sold for scrap in November 1968.