HMAS CESSNOCK J175

Class Bathurst Class

Type Australian Minesweeper

Builder Cockatoo Docks Sydney

Laid Down 16 April 1941

Launched 17 October 1941

Commissioned 26 January 1942

Decommissioned 12 July 1946

Battle Honours

PACIFIC 1942

NEW GUINEA 1942

INDIAN OCEAN 1942–45

SICILY 1943

Fate:

Cassnock was paid off 12 July 1946 and sold for scrap to China 23 April 1947

Displacement 650 tons

Length 186 feet

Beam 31 feet

Draught 8 feet 6 inches

Speed 15 knots

Crew 85

Propulsion Triple expansion, 2 shafts

Horsepower 2,000

Armament 1 x 12-pounder gun

(later 1 x 4-inch HA gun)

1 x Bofors (later)

Machine guns

3 x Oerlikons

(later 6, then 4)

Depth charge chutes

and throwers

RANCA NSW