HMAS Wollongong (J172)

HMAS Wollongong in 1943
History
Australia
Namesake	City of Wollongong, New South Wales
Builder	Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company
Laid down	29 January 1941
Launched	5 July 1941
Commissioned	23 October 1941
Decommissioned	11 February 1946
Motto	"Heed the Call"
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Pacific 1942–45 Indian Ocean 1942–45 Sicily 1943 Mediterranean 1943 East Indies 1943 Okinawa 1945
Fate	Transferred to RNN
Badge
Netherlands
Name	Banda
Namesake	Banda Islands
Fate	Transferred to TNI-AL
Indonesia
Name	Radjawali
Namesake	Aquilinae
Acquired	April 1950
Fate	Sold for scrap in 1968
General characteristics
Class and type	Bathurst-class corvette
Displacement	650 tons
Length	186 ft (57 m)
Beam	31 ft (9.4 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion, 2 shafts. 2,000 hp (1,500 kW)
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 (later) Machine guns Depth charge chutes and throwers

HMAS Wollongong (J172), named for the city of Wollongong, 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]