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| Career (Australia) |
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| Namesake: |
City of Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Builder: |
Evans Deakin & Co |
| Launched: |
18 March 1942 |
| Decommissioned: |
22 June 1959 |
| Motto: |
"Incorruptible" |
| Fate: |
Sold for scrap in 1961 |
| Badge: |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
The first HMAS Fremantle (J246/M246) was a Bathurst class corvette built by Evans Deakin & Co at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 18 March 1942 by Mrs. J. Curtin, wife of the Prime Minister John Curtin, and commissioned on 24 March 1943.
HMAS Fremantle paid off to reserve on 22 June 1959 and was sold for scrap to the Kinoshita Company of Japan on 6 January 1961.
