HMAS Castlemaine
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 HMAS Castlemaine |
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| Career (Australia) |  |
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| Namesake: | City of Castlemaine, Victoria |
| Builder: | Melbourne Harbour Trust |
| Laid down: | 17 February 1941 |
| Launched: | 7 August 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 17 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 December 1945 |
| Reclassified: | Immobilised training hulk (1945) Museum ship (1973) |
| Motto: | "Watch and Prey" |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bathurst class corvette |
| Displacement: | 650 tons (standard), 1,025 tons (full war load) |
| Length: | 186 ft (57 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught: | 8.5 ft (2.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | triple expansion engine, 2 shafts. 2,000 hp |
| Speed: | 15 knots at 1,750 hp |
| Complement: | 85 |
| Armament: | 1 x 4-inch gun, 3 x Oerlikons, Machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers |
HMAS Castlemaine (J244/M244/A248), named for the city of Castlemaine in Victoria, Australia, is a Bathurst class corvette of the Royal Australian Navy.
Laid down by the Melbourne Harbour Trust at Williamstown in Victoria on 17 February 1941, launched on 7 August 1941 by the then Mrs. R. G. Menzies (wife of Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies) and commissioned at Melbourne on 17 June 1942.
Castlemaine paid off to reserve on 14 December 1945 and was immobilised at HMAS Cerberus at Crib Point in Victoria as a training hulk for Engine Room Artificers, who ran the boilers in part providing steam heating throughout the base.
In September 1973 the Minister for Defence announced that the Australian Government had made a gift of HMAS Castlemaine to the Maritime Trust of Australia to become a maritime museum. Castlemaine is presently berthed at Gem Pier, Williamstown, Victoria, adjacent to the historic Customs House.
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