HMAS Bathurst (J158)
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HMAS Bathurst (J158), named for the city of Bathurst, New South Wales, was the lead ship of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II and one of 20 built for the Admiralty but manned by personnel of and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).[3] Constructed during 1940, the ship spent most of her early career operating with the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean. She returned to Australian waters in late 1944, then was deployed to New Guinea in 1945, but saw little action. Bathurst was paid off in 1946, and sold to a Sydney scrap merchant in 1948.
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HMAS Bathurst the day before she was commissioned into service with the Royal Australian Navy | |
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Australia | |
Namesake | City of Bathurst, New South Wales |
Builder | Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney |
Laid down | 10 February 1940 |
Launched | 1 August 1940 |
Commissioned | 6 December 1940 |
Decommissioned | 27 September 1946 |
Motto | "Strike Hard" |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Sold for scrap on 21 June 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bathurst-class corvette |
Displacement | 733 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, 2,000 horsepower |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) at 1,750 hp |
Complement | 85 |
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