HMAS WAGGA J315

Namesake: City of Wagga Wagga, NSW

Builder: Morts Dock

Laid down: 8 March 1942

Launched: 25 July 1942

Commissioned: 18 December 1942

Decommissioned: 28 November 1945

Recommissioned: 12 December 1951

Decommissioned: 28 October 1960

Reclassified: Training ship 12 Dec 1951 Motto: "Uppermost ever"

Battle honours:

Pacific 1943–45

New Guinea 1943–44

Fate: Sold for scrap in 1962

Displacement: 815 tons (standard)

Length: 189 ft (58 m)

Beam: 32 ft (9.8 m)

Draught: 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m)

Propulsion: triple expansion

engine, 2 shafts

Speed: 15.5 knots(28.7 km/h;

17.8 mph)

Complement: 85

Armament: 1 × 4-inch gun

3 × 20 mm Oerlikons

machine guns

depth charge

chutes and throwers

Training ship:

1 × 4-inch gun

1 × 40 mm Bofors

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