HMAS Durraween

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HMAS Durraween (F93) was an auxiliary minesweeper used by the Royal Australian Navy in World War II. She started life as a fishing trawler named Seville, built in Canada and launched in 1918. She briefly served in the Royal Canadian Navy from August 1918 to January 1919 before being laid up and changing owners.

In 1928 she was sold to Red Funnel Trawler Limited of Sydney and renamed Durraween, sailing to Australia in a 92‑day voyage that included a grounding at the Cocos Islands. In 1937 she collided with the passenger liner Wanganella off Montague Island but survived.

She was requisitioned by the RAN on 29 July 1940 and served in Bass Strait as part of Minesweeping Group 54, helping to clear mines laid by German raiders Pinguin and Passat. Later in the war she did survey work in the Torres Strait.

After the war she was paid off on 1 November 1945, returned to her owners in 1946, and went back to trawling. Durraween was broken up at Blackwattle Bay in 1952.