RANCA NSW
HMAS GLADSTONE J324
Namesake: City of Gladstone, QLD
Builder: Walkers Limited
Laid down: 4 August 1942
Launched: 26 November 1942
Commissioned: 22 March 1943
Decommissioned: 16 July 1956
Reclassified: Training ship (1946)
Battle honours:
Pacific 1943–45
New Guinea 1943–44
Fate: Entered civilian service in 1956, scrapped in 1983
Displacement: 650 tons (standard),
1,025 tons (full war load)
Length: 186 feet (57 m)
Beam: 31 feet (9.4 m)
Draught: 8.5 feet (2.6 m)
Propulsion: 2 × Yarrow boilers,
2 × triple expansion
steam engines,
2 shafts, 2,000 hp
Speed: 15 knots
(28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement: 85
Armament: 1 × 4-inch HA gun
3 × 20 mm Oerlikons
1 × 40 mm Bofors
(installed later)
Machine guns
Depth charges,
chutes and throwers