Namesake:     Town of Echuca, Victoria

Builder:          HMA Naval Dockyard

Laid down:    22 February 1941

Launched:     17 January 1942

Commissioned:      7 September 1942

Decommissioned:     August 1946

Recommissioned:     January 1947

Decommissioned:     28 June 1948

 

Battle honours:

            Pacific 1944–44

            New Guinea 1943–44

Fate: 

On 5 March 1952, Echuca was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). She was commissioned into the RNZN in May 1952, and received the prefix HMNZS.The corvette remained in service with the RNZN until 1967, although from 1953 she was classified as being in reserve.She was sold to Pacific Scrap Limited of Auckland for scrapping on 11 April 1967.