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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