RANCA NSW
HMAS ARARAT K34
Namesake: Town of Ararat, Victoria
Builder: Evans Deakin & Co in Brisbane
Laid down: 6 July 1942
Launched: 20 February 1943
Commissioned: 16 June 1943
Decommissioned: 11 April 1947
Battle honours:
Pacific 1943–45
New Guinea 1943–44[1][2]
Fate: Sold into civilian service. Later scrapped.
Class & 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, 2,000 horsepower
Speed: 15 knots
(28 km/h; 17 mph) at 1,750 hp
Complement: 85
Armament: 1 × 4-inch gun
3 × Oerlikons
Machine guns
Depth charges chutes and
throwers
COPIED FROM CORVETTE MAGAZINE JANUARY 1989
