
RANCA NSW
HMAS COWRA J351

Namesake: Town of Cowra, NSW
Builder: Poole & Steel
Laid down: 12 August 1942
Launched: 27 May 1943
Commissioned: 8 October 1943
Decommissioned: 4 December 1946
Recommissioned: 20 February 1951 Decommissioned: 26 June 1953
Reclassified:Training ship (1951)
Battle honours:
Pacific 1943–45
New Guinea 1944
Fate: Sold for scrap in 1961

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: 10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion: triple expansion engine,
2 shafts
Speed: 15.5 knots
(28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Complement: 85
Armament:
1 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mk XIX gun
3 × 20 mm Oerlikons