HMAS Deloraine

HMAS Deloraine in 1944
History
Australia
Namesake	Town of Deloraine, Tasmania
Builder	Mort's Dock & Engineering Co
Laid down	19 March 1941
Launched	26 July 1941
Commissioned	22 November 1941
Decommissioned	30 June 1948
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Darwin 1942 Pacific 1942–45 New Guinea 1943–44
Fate	Sold for scrap in 1956
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 (28 km/h; 17 mph) at 1,750 hp
Complement	85
Armament	1 × 12-pounder gun (later replaced by 1 × 4 inch Mk XIX gun) 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons (later 2) 1 × 40 mm Bofors (installed later) Machine guns Depth charges chutes and throwers

HMAS Deloraine (J232/M232), named for the town of Deloraine, Tasmania, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).^[1] In January 1942 she evaded an attack by the Japanese submarine I-124 north-west of Darwin and was jointly credited with the submarine's sinking after inflicting the initial damage. She was present at the bombing of Darwin and survived unscathed.