The first HMASArunta (D-130/I-30) was a Tribal class destroyer, laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 15 November1939, launched on 30 November 1940, and commissioned on 30 March 1942.
Arunta attacked and sank the enemy Japanese submarine RO-33 off New Guinea on 24 August1942, and participated in the landings at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945 where she was damaged by enemy Japanese kamikaze aircraft and at Balikpapan in Borneo in July 1945.
''Arunta'' attacked and sank the enemy Japanese submarine '' RO-33 '' off New Guinea on 24 August1942, and participated in the landings at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945 where she was damaged by enemy Japanese kamikaze aircraft and at Balikpapan in Borneo in July 1945.
In the first month of 1943, ARUNTA was dispatched on a hazardous mission to Timor to pick up a guerrilla force that was failing to hold the Japanese at bay.
At BalikpapanBorneo, ARUNTA participated in the shelling of shore positions from 27th June until the amphibious landing on July 1.
ARUNTA spent an additional four active but peaceful years in the Royal Australian Navy until she was laid up in 1957.
