
RANCA NSW
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

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