
RANCA NSW
HMAS TOWNSVILLE J205

Namesake: City of Townsville, QLD
Builder: Evans Deakin & Co
Laid down: 16 November 1940
Launched: 13 May 1941
Commissioned: 19 December 1941
Decommissioned: 5 August 1946
Motto: "Bold and Ready"
Battle honours:
Darwin 1942
Pacific 1942–45
New Guinea 1944
Fate: Sold for scrap in 1956


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 × 20 mm Oerlikons
Machine guns
Depth charges
chutes and throwers