RANCA NSW
HMAS INVERELL J233
Namesake: Town of Inverell, NSW Builder: Mort's Dock
Laid down: 7 December 1941
Launched: 2 May 1942
Commissioned: 17 September 1942
Decommissioned: 14 June 1946
Transferred to RNZN
Acquired: 5 March 1952
Commissioned: 10 April 1952
Decommissioned: 1952
Recommissioned: 15 August 1965
Decommissioned: 19 August 1976
Reclassified: Training and fisheries
protection vessel
Battle honours:
Darwin 1942
Pacific 1942–45
Fate:
Sold for scrap on 1 November 1977
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,
2,000 hp
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h;
17 mph) at 1,750 hp
Complement: 85
Armament: 1 × 4-inch gun
3 × 20 mm Oerlikons
(later reduced to 2)
1 × 40 mm Bofors
(installed later)
Machine guns
Depth charges
chutes and throwers