
RANCA NSW
HMAS TOOWOOMBA J157

Namesake: City of Toowoomba, QLD
Builder: Walkers Limited
Laid down: 6 August 1940
Launched: 26 March 1941
Commissioned: 9 October 1941
Decommissioned: 5 July 1946
Motto: "Fearless"
Battle honours:
Pacific 1942
Indian Ocean 1942–44
Fate: Transferred to RNN
Netherlands
Name: Boeroe
Commissioned: 5 July 1946
Out of service: 1958
Fate: Removed from service

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
(later replaced
by 1 × 12-pounder gun
then reinstalled)
3 × 20 mmOerlikons
(later 2)
1 × 40 mm Bofors
(installed later)
Machine guns
Depth charges
chutes and throwers