HMAS Strahan

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Career Australia RAN Ensign
Builder: State Dockyard
Laid down:
Launched: 12 July 1943
Commissioned: 14 March 1944
Struck: 6 January 1961
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

HMAS Strahan (J-363/M-363), named for the town of Strahan in Tasmania, was a Bathurst class corvette built by the State Dockyard at Newcastle, New South Wales, launched on 12 July 1943 by Mrs. J. J. Cahill, wife of the Minister for Public Works and Local Government, and commissioned on 14 March 1944. HMAS Strahan paid off to reserve on 25 January 1946, was sold for scrap on 6 January 1961 and broken up at Green Point in Sydney in March 1963.


Bathurst-class corvette
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