HMAS Kybra

HMAS Kybra was a support and training ship from World War II, serving with the Royal Australian Navy from 1940 to 1945.

[2] Kybra was built in 1926 by Coaster Construction in Montrose, commissioned by Stateships of Western Australia.

She was powered by a six-cylinder diesel engine made by the Swiss company Sulzer Brothers in Winterthur and had a single propeller, giving a top speed of 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph).

[3] The vessel was launched on 13 January 1926, and sailed from Scotland to Australia where it arrived on 27 May.

[6][7] After the war she was returned to the Stateships on 10 November 1945 and was used on routes in the north west of Western Australia in the 1950s.