HMAS Katoomba

History
Australia
Namesake	Town of Katoomba, New South Wales
Builder	Poole & Steel
Laid down	9 September 1940
Launched	16 April 1941
Commissioned	17 December 1941
Decommissioned	2 August 1948
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Darwin 1942 Pacific 1942–45 New Guinea 1942–44
Fate	Sold for scrap
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, 3 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (1 later replaced with 1 × Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60), Machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers

HMAS Katoomba (J204/M204), named after the tourist resort of Katoomba, New South Wales, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially crewed and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).^[1]