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Two ships of the [[Royal Australian Navy]] have been named '''HMAS ''Kanimbla''''', for the [[Kanimbla Valley]] in the [[Blue Mountains (Australia)|Blue Mountains]] of [[New South Wales]]:<br />
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* {{HMAS|Kanimbla|F23}}, a passenger liner launched in 1935, requisitioned by the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser in 1939, converted into a RAN landing ship in 1943, and returned to owners in 1950<br />
* {{HMAS|Kanimbla|L 51}}, an amphibious transport ship acquired from the United States in 1994 and decommissioned in 2011<br />
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==Battle honours==<br />
Ships named HMAS ''Kanimbla'' are entitled to carry seven [[battle honour]]s:<ref name=newhonours>{{cite news |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours |title=Navy Marks 109th Birthday With Historic Changes To Battle Honours |date=1 March 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613184920/http://www.navy.gov.au/Navy_Marks_109th_Birthday_With_Historic_Changes_To_Battle_Honours |archivedate=13 June 2011 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |accessdate=23 December 2012}}</ref><ref name=honourslist>{{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf |title=Royal Australian Navy Ship/Unit Battle Honours |date=1 March 2010 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614064156/http://www.navy.gov.au/w/images/Units_entitlement_list.pdf |archivedate=14 June 2011 |accessdate=23 December 2012}}</ref><br />
*[[New Guinea campaign|New Guinea]] 1944<br />
*[[Battle of Leyte Gulf|Leyte Gulf]] 1944<br />
*[[Invasion of Lingayen Gulf|Lingayen Gulf]] 1945<br />
*[[Borneo campaign (1945)|Borneo]] 1945<br />
*[[South West Pacific theatre of World War II|Pacific]] 1945<br />
*[[Military history of Australia during the War in Afghanistan#Persian Gulf|Persian Gulf]] 2001–03<br />
*[[2003 invasion of Iraq|Iraq]] 2003<br />
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==References==<br />
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