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HMAS FREMANTLE J246

Namesake:           City of Fremantle, WA

Builder:                Evans Deakin & Co

Launched:           18 March 1942

Commissioned:   24 March 1943

Decommissioned:             25 January 1946

Recommissioned:             10 December 1952

Decommissioned:             22 June 1959

 

Motto: "Incorruptible"

Battle honours:

                    Darwin 1943

                    Pacific 1943–45

 

Fate:   Sold for scrap in 1961

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Displacement:    650 tons (standard),

                             1,025 tons (full  load)

Length:                186 ft (57 m)

Beam:                  31 ft (9.4 m)

Draught:              8.5 ft (2.6 m)

Propulsion:         triple expansion engine,

                              2 shafts

Speed:                  15 knots 28 km/h; 17 mph

                              at 1,750 hp

Complement:      85

Armament:          1 × QF 4-inch (102 mm)

                              Mk XVI gun

                              Depth charges

                              chutes and throwers

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