Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Named for the Barwon River in Victoria which rises in the Otway Ranges and enters the sea at Barwon Heads. HMAS Barwon (K-406) was a River class frigate laid down by Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney in New South Wales, launched on 3 August 1944 and commissioned on 10 December 1945. HMAS Barwon paid off on 31 March 1947 and was sold in January 1962. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.