RANCA NSW
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