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HMAS Goulburn in 1941 |
| Career (Australia) |
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| Namesake: |
City of Goulburn, New South Wales |
| Builder: |
Cockatoo Island Dockyard |
| Laid down: |
10 July 1940 |
| Launched: |
16 November 1940 |
| Commissioned: |
28 February 1941 |
| Decommissioned: |
27 September 1946 |
| Fate: |
Sold for scrap in 1947 |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Bathurst class corvette |
| Displacement: |
743 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, 1,750 hp |
| Speed: |
15 knots at 1,750 hp |
| Complement: |
85 |
| Armament: |
1 x 4-inch gun, 3 x Oerlikons, 2 x Lewis .303 machine guns, 2 x Vickers .303 machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers |
HMAS Goulburn (J167/B243/A117), named for the city of Goulburn, New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney in New South Wales on 10 July 1940, launched on 16 November 1940 by Mrs. J. G. Crace, wife of the Rear Admiral Commanding the Australian Squadron, and commissioned on 28 February 1941.
HMAS Goulburn paid off on 27 September 1946, was sold to Pacific Enterprise Incorporated on 13 October 1947 and broken up at Iron Cove in 1953.
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