HMAS Bingera was an auxiliary anti-submarine vessel of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the Second World War.

Bingera was built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton in 1935 for the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company for the Queensland coastal trade,[1] arriving at Brisbane on 18 November 1935.

Bingera was sold in February 1948 to Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand and renamed Taranui.

[8] From about 1963[9] to 1970,[10] Taranui was chartered by the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute for several voyages, which included one through Cyclone Giselle.

[11] In 1971 she was sold to Cia de Naviera Louise SA, Panama and renamed Locolina.