HMAS Warrawee

History
Australia
Name: Warrawee
Owner:
  • Gulf Steamship Company, Port Adelaide (1909-1913)
  • Coast Steamships Ltd (1913-1953)
Builder: John Reid & Company, Glasgow
Yard number: 347
Launched: 23 February 1909
Reinstated: UK Official Number: 122726
Fate: Scrapped in 1953.
History
Australia
Commissioned: 18 September 1941
Fate: returned to owners in 1946
General characteristics
Tonnage: 423 gross tons
Length: 155.7 ft (47.5 m)[1]
Beam: 27.1 ft (8.3 m)
Draught: 10.1 ft (3.1 m)

HMAS Warrawee was an examination vessel and auxiliary minesweeper which served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II.

Warrawee was built in 1909 by John Reid & Company, Glasgow, Scotland as a cargo passenger steam ship for the Gulf Steamship Company.[2] She plied the Port Adelaide to Edithburgh and Ardrossan run. At the start of World War II, Warrawee was requisitioned and was commissioned into the RAN as an examination vessel and auxiliary minesweeper on 18 September 1941. She was returned to her owners in 1946.

Fate

She was sold to Howard G Smith in 1953 and was broken up.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Lloyd's Register 1945-46" (PDF). plimsollshipdata. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Gulf Steamship Company". Flotilla Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Warrawee". Clydebuilt ships. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
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