HMAS Ararat

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Career Australia
Builder:	Evans Deakin Ltd, Brisbane
Laid down:	July 6, 1942
Launched:	February 20, 1943
Commissioned:	June 16, 1943
Decommissioned:	April 11, 1947
Status:	Scrapped
General Characteristics
Displacement:	650 tons
Length:	186 feet
Beam:	31 feet
Draught:	8.5 feet
Propulsion:	triple expansion engine, 2 shafts
Speed:	15 knots
Complement:	85
Armament:	1 x 4-inch gun, 3 x Oerlikons, Machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers

HMAS Ararat was a Bathurst class corvette, named for the town of Ararat in Victoria, laid down by Evans Deakins and Company at Brisbane in Queensland on July 6, 1942, launched on February 20, 1943 by Mrs. A. W. Fadden, wife of the leader of the Australian Country Party and commissioned on June 16, 1943. HMAS Ararat paid off to reserve on April 11, 1947, and was sold to Burns Philp and Company of Darwin on January 6, 1961. She was later sold to Japanese interests and left Darwin on July 20 1961 under the control of the Fujita Salvage Company of Japan.

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