HMAS Bendigo
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Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have borne the name Bendigo, for a city in Victoria.
The first HMAS Bendigo (J-187/B-237/A-111) was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney in New South Wales on 12 August 1940, launched on 1 March 1941 by Dame Mary Hughes, wife of the Minister for the Navy, and commissioned on 10 May 1941. HMAS Bendigo paid off on 27 September 1946, was sold to the Ta Hing Company of Hong Kong as a seagoing vessel and renamed Cheung Hing. The ship was later acquired by the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and re-armed for naval service under the name Loyang.
The second HMAS Bendigo (P-211) is a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down by the North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns in Queensland on 21 September 1981, launched on 9 March 1983 and commissioned on 28 May 1983.