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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

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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:              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

Extract from Corvette Magazine November 1989
RANCA South Australia – The secretary and C.O. (both ex Cowra)are very displeased with the lousy attendance of their ships company at Corvette functions and promise a Captains report to any absentees from the “Cowra” tables on 20 October 1990. Seriously though, “Cowra” men, your skipper would love to see his old crew together again. 
1989
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