HMAS Bataan (I91)
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.jpg/300px-HMAS_Bataan_(AWM_300374).jpg) HMAS Bataan operating off Korea |
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| Career (Royal Australian Navy) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Battle of Bataan |
| Builder: | Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company |
| Laid down: | 18 February 1942 |
| Launched: | 15 January 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 25 May 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 October 1954 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tribal class destroyer |
HMAS Bataan (D9/D191/I91) was a Tribal class destroyer laid down by Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 18 February 1942, launched on 15 January 1944 by the wife of General Douglas MacArthur, and commissioned at Sydney on 25 May 1945.
She was named after the Battle of Bataan, to honour the scene of resistance by American and Filipino defenders, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, against an overwhelming Japanese invading force on the island of Luzon in the Philippine Islands from 1 January to 9 April 1942. She was originally to have been named Kurnai, after an Australian aboriginal tribe but was renamed Bataan as a gesture to the United States for naming one of their ships Canberra.
Bataan was present in Tokyo for the official Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945,[1] and operated in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War.
Bataan paid off at Sydney on 18 October 1954 and was laid up in reserve awaiting conversion to an anti-submarine escort. The conversion was cancelled in 1957, with Bataan placed on the disposal list and sold for scrap to Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Limited of Tokyo on 2 May 1958.
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- ^ Allied Ships Present in Tokyo Bay During the Surrender Ceremony, 2 September 1945. Naval Historical Center - U.S. Navy (27 May 2005). Retrieved on 2007-01-13. “Taken from Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPAC/CINCPOA) A16-3/FF12 Serial 0395, 11 February 1946: Report of Surrender and Occupation of Japan”
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