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HMAS Glenelg |
| Career (Australia) |
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| Namesake: |
Town of Glenelg, South Australia |
| Builder: |
Cockatoo Island Dockyard |
| Laid down: |
2 March 1942 |
| Launched: |
25 September 1942 |
| Decommissioned: |
14 January 1946 |
| Motto: |
"Staunch In Defiance" |
| Fate: |
Sold for scrap in 1957 |
| 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 |
HMAS Glenelg (J236/M236), commissioned on 16 November 1942 and the first ship of the Royal Australian Navy to be named for the city of Glenelg, South Australia, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney in New South Wales on 2 March 1942. Glenelg was launched on 25 September 1942 by Mrs. H. V. Evatt, wife of Doctor H. V. Evatt, Minister for External Affairs.
HMAS Glenelg was paid off on 14 January 1946 and was sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Rolling Mills on 2 May 1957.
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