Three ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named for the Swan River in Western Australia.

The first HMAS Swan (D-61) was a River class destroyer laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 22 January 1913, launched on 11 December 1915 by Lady Creswell, wife of Sir William Rooke Creswell, the First Naval Member of the Commonwealth Naval Board and commissioned on 16 August 1916. HMAS Swan paid off for disposal at Sydney on 15 May 1928 and was broken up for scrap at Cockatoo Dockyard in 1930.

The second HMAS Swan (U-74/A-427/F-74) was a Grimsby class sloop laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Propriety Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 1 May 1935, launched on 28 March 1936 and commissioned on 21 January 1937. General Eather, GOC 11th Division, Australian Forces, accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in New Ireland from General Ito on board Swan on 18 September 1945. Swan paid off to reserve on 18 August 1950, was converted to a training ship between October 1954 and February 1956 and recommissioned on 10 February 1956. HMAS Swan paid off for disposal on 20 September 1962 and was sold for scrap to Hurley and Dewhurst of Sydney on 5 June 1964.

The third HMAS Swan (DE-50) was a River class frigate laid down by the Williamstown Dockyard at Melbourne in Victoria on 16 February 1965, launched on 16 December 1967 and commissioned on 20 January 1970. HMAS Swan paid off on 13 September 1996 and was scuttled as a dive wreck off Dunsborough in Western Australia on 14 December 1997.