HMAS Cootamundra

History
Australia
Namesake	Town of Cootamundra, New South Wales
Builder	Poole & Steel
Laid down	26 February 1942
Launched	3 December 1942
Commissioned	30 April 1943
Decommissioned	26 November 1945
Recommissioned	12 December 1951
Decommissioned	8 June 1959
Reclassified	Training ship (1951)
Motto	"Service"
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Darwin 1943 Pacific 1943–45 New Guinea 1944
Fate	Sold for scrap in 1962
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General characteristics
Class and type	Bathurst-class corvette
Displacement	650 tons standard 1,025 tons full load
Length	186 ft 2 in (56.74 m)
Beam	31 ft (9.4 m)
Draught	8 ft 3 in (2.51 m)
Propulsion	triple expansion engine, 2 shafts, 2,000 hp
Speed	15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Complement	85
Armament	1 × 4 inch Mk XVI gun 1 × Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60

HMAS Cootamundra (J316/M186), named for the town of Cootamundra, New South Wales, 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]