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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

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