HMAS Deloraine
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 HMAS Deloraine during the bombing of Darwin (February 1942) |
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| Career (Australia) |  |
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| Namesake: | Town of Deloraine, Tasmania |
| Builder: | Morts Dock & Engineering Co |
| Launched: | 26 July 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 27 November 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 June 1948 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap in 1956 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bathurst class corvette |
| Displacement: | 650 tons (standard), 1,025 tons (full war load) |
| Length: | 186 ft (57 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught: | 8.5 ft (2.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | triple expansion engine, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 15 knots at 1,750 hp |
| Complement: | 85 |
| Armament: | 1 x 4-inch gun, 3 x Oerlikons, Machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers |
HMAS Deloraine (J232/M232), named for the town of Deloraine, Tasmania, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock & Engineering Co at Mort's Dock, Balmain in New South Wales, launched on 26 July 1941 by Dame Mary Hughes, wife of the Minister for the Navy, and commissioned on 27 November 1941.
The Deloraine, in company with USS Edsall, HMAS Katoomba and HMAS Lithgow, attacked and sank the Japanese submarine I-124 — the first enemy submarine to be sunk in Australian waters — on 20 January 1942.[1] The ship survived the Japanese air raids on Darwin, February 19, 1942.
HMAS Deloraine paid off to reserve at Fremantle on 30 June 1948 and was sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Delta Shipping Company on 8 August 1956.
[edit] References
- Stevens, David (June 2005). A Critical Vulnerability: The Impact of the Submarine Threat on Australia’s Maritime Defence (1915-1954) (PDF), Papers in Australian Maritime Affairs (No. 15), Canberra: Sea Power Centre. ISBN 0-642-29625-1. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
- ^ Stevens (2005). Pp 183-184.
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