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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

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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

DID YOU KNOW?
According to Dept of Defence, the last serving RAN Bathurst Class Corvette was
HMAS WAGGA which was decommissioned on 28 October 1960
Source:  Corvette magazine  September 20
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