HMAS Strahan
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Career Australia | |
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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.
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