HMAS Cessnock (J175)

HMAS Cessnock c. 1942
History
Australia
Namesake	City of Cessnock, New South Wales
Builder	Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company
Laid down	16 April 1941
Launched	17 October 1941
Commissioned	26 January 1942
Decommissioned	12 July 1946
Motto	"No Steps Backward"
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Pacific 1942 New Guinea 1942 Indian Ocean 1942–45 Sicily 1943
Fate	Sold for scrap in 1947
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, 2 shafts, 1,750 hp
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	85
Armament	1 × 4 inch Mk XIX gun, 3 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (later 2), 1 Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun (installed later), various machine guns and small arms, Depth charge chutes and throwers

HMAS Cessnock (J175/B240/A114), named for the town of Cessnock, New South Wales, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II and one of 20 built for the Admiralty but manned by personnel of and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).^[1]