The River class destroyer HMAS WARREGO, (CMDR G. F. Hyde, RN), was commissioned at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney. The ship had been laid down and completely built at Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering, Govan, Scotland, then broken down again into it’s individual parts for shipment to Australia, to be re-assembled at Cockatoo Island. This was to allow training for the Australian dockyard workers, who were to build three more River class destroyers, (HMA Ships SWAN, TORRENS, and HUON). A rumour, at the time of re-building WARREGO, was that the British dockyard workers had included an extra steel plate in the consignment in order to ‘confuse the colonials’. WARREGO was re-launched at Cockatoo on 4 April 1911. Mrs G. F. Pearce, (Wife of the Minister for Defence), performed the launching ceremony.