HMAS KALGOORLIE J192

Namesake: City of Kalgoorlie, WA

Builder: Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd

Laid down: 27 July 1940

Launched: 7 August 1941

Commissioned: 7 April 1942

Decommissioned: 8 May 1946

Battle honours:

Darwin 1942–43

Pacific 1942–43

New Guinea 1943–44

Okinawa 1945

Fate: Transferred to RNN

Netherlands

Name: Ternate

Acquired: 8 May 1946

Commissioned: 8 May 1946

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

Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h;

17 mph) at 1,750 hp

Complement: 85

Armament: 1 × 4-inch gun,

3 × Oerlikons,

1 × Bofors,

Machine guns,

Depth charges

chutes & throwers

Extract from Corvette Magazine January 1990

After 44 years – First reunion

Whyalla – South Australia – 24 to 26 April

Comradeship Civic Reception, Anzac Day March with men of Pirie, Whyalla, Gawler, Tour of Steelworks,

Kalgoorlie reunion dinner – more comradeship.

30 rooms at Spencer Hotel for Kalgoorlie people - $ 30 double, $ 23 single

Extract from Corvette Magazine July 2000

RANCA NSW