RANCA NSW
HMAS GYMPIE J238
Namesake: City of Gympie, QLD
Builder: Evans Deakin & Co
Laid down: 27 August 1941
Launched: 30 January 1942
Commissioned: 4 November 1942
Decommissioned: 23 May 1946
Battle honours
Pacific 1943–45
New Guinea 1943–44
Fate:
Sold for scrap in 1961
Displacement: 650 tons (standard),
1,025 tons (full war 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, 2,000 hp
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h;
17 mph) at 1,750 hp
Complement: 85
Armament: 1 × 12-pounder gun
(replaced by
1 × 4-inch HA gun)
3 × Oerlikons
(later reduced to 2)
1 × Bofors
(installed later)
Machine guns
Depth charges
chutes and throwers