RANCA NSW
HMAS PARKES J361
Namesake: Town of Parkes, NSW
Builder: Evans Deakin & Co
Laid down: 16 March 1943
Launched: 30 October 1943
Commissioned: 25 May 1944
Decommissioned: 17 December 1945
Motto:
"Equals with Equals"
Battle honours:
Pacific 1944
New Guinea 1944
Fate: Sold for scrap in 1957
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 × 4-inch gun,
3 × Oerlikons,
Machine guns,
Depth charges
chutes and throwers