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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.

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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

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