[2] Work on the two vessels started without specifications or a contract, and the evolving design meant changes were being made as the ships were being constructed, with resulting delays and cost increases attributed to a lack of planning.

[4] Based/ home ported primarily in Sydney for most of her commissioning, then moving over to the West, HMAS STIRLING, Garden Island WA in the later part of her career, late 198 early to mid 1990s.

Her many trips and regional deployments up to and around South East Asia, conducting 'war games' / exercises in many countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines.

[5][6] On 16 August 1976, Torrens and HMAS Melbourne were performing work-up exercises following the latter's refit when they were called to assist MV Miss Chief off the coast of Bundaberg, Queensland.

[7] During late February and early March 1972, Torrens escorted the troopship HMAS Sydney on her twenty-fourth and final troop transport voyage in support of the Vietnam War.