HMAS Kapunda

Career Australia

Builder:	Poole and Steele
Laid down:	August 27, 1941
Launched:	June 23, 1942
Commissioned:	October 21, 1942
Out of service:	January 14, 1946
Status:	Scrapped
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,025 tons (full war load)
Length:	186 feet
Beam:	31 feet
Draught:	8.5 feet
Speed:	15 knots at 1750 hp
Complement:	approximately 80 sailors
Armament:	Armament Variable - but including in general: 1x twelve pounder gun, 1x 4 inch gun, 1x 40mm Bofors AA gun, 3x single 20mm Oerlikon guns, up to 40x depth charges
Motto:	Protect And Avenge

HMAS Kapunda (J-218/M-218), named for the town of Kapunda in South Australia, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole and Steele at Balmain in New South Wales on 27 August 1941, launched on 23 June 1942 by Mrs. Mary Lily May Quirk, wife of the Member for Balmain in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and commissioned on 21 October 1942. Major General Yamamura signed the instrument of surrender of the Japanese forces in the Kuching area on board the ship. HMAS Kapunda paid off to reserve on 14 January 1946, was declared for disposal on 30 December 1960 and sold for scrap to Kinoshita (Australia) on 6 January 1961.