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| Career (Australia) |
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| Namesake: |
Town of Katoomba, New South Wales |
| Builder: |
Poole & Steele Limited |
| Laid down: |
9 September 1940 |
| Launched: |
16 April 1941 |
| Commissioned: |
17 December 1941 |
| Decommissioned: |
2 August 1948 |
| Fate: |
Sold for scrap 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 12 pounder gun, 3 x Oerlikons (1 later replaced with 1 x Bofors), Machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers |
HMAS Katoomba (J204/M204), named for the tourist resort of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole & Steele Limited at Balmain in New South Wales on 9 September 1940, launched on 16 April 1941 by Mrs. H. Lloyd, deputy mayoress of Katoomba, and commissioned on 17 December 1941.
In company with HMAS Deloraine, HMAS Lithgow and USS Edsall, she was officially credited with destroying Japanese submarine I-124 on 20 January 1942, the first enemy submarine sunk in Australian waters.
HMAS Katoomba paid off to reserve at Fremantle on 2 August 1948 and sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Rolling Mills on 2 May 1957.
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