HMAS Parkes

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Career Australia
Builder:	Evans Deakin Ltd, Brisbane
Laid down:	March 16, 1943
Launched:	October 30, 1943
Commissioned:	May 25, 1944
Decommissioned:	December 17, 1945
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
Motto:	Equals with Equals

HMAS Parkes was a Bathurst class corvette, named for the town of Parkes in New South Wales, laid down by Evans Deakins and Company at Brisbane in Queensland on March 16, 1943, launched on October 30, 1943 by Mrs Brown, wife of the President of the Senate, and commissioned on May 25, 1944.

HMAS Parkes paid off to reserve on December 17, 1945 in Fremantle. The vessel was sold for scrap to Hong Kong Rolling Mills Ltd on May 2, 1957

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