HMAS Kimbla was a boom defence vessel of the Royal Australian Navy from 1956 until 1985.

HMAS Kimbla was built by Walkers of Maryborough, Queensland, being commissioned on 26 March 1956.

[3] In October 1962 it was involved in the recovery of a RAN Sea Venom aircraft off Jervis Bay and in 1978 of a General Dynamics F-111C off New Zealand.

[1][2] On 31 August 1979, a crewman was washed overboard in heavy seas while the ship was leaving Port Phillip Bay.

[4] When it was decommissioned on 15 February 1985, Kimbla was the last RAN ship to use a reciprocating steam engine as a form of propulsion.