HMAS Strahan

History
Australia
Namesake	Town of Strahan, Tasmania
Builder	State Dockyard, Newcastle, New South Wales
Laid down	9 October 1942
Launched	12 July 1943
Commissioned	14 March 1944
Decommissioned	25 January 1946
Motto	"With Fair Winds"
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Pacific 1944–45 New Guinea 1944
Fate	Sold for scrap in 1961, broken up in 1963
General characteristics
Class and type	Bathurst-class corvette
Displacement	815 tons
Length	186 ft 2 in (56.74 m)
Beam	31 ft (9.4 m)
Draught	8.5 ft (2.6 m)
Propulsion	triple expansion engine, 2 shafts, 2,000 horsepower
Speed	15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Complement	85
Armament	1 × 4 inch Mk XIX gun 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons 1 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun Machine guns Depth charges chutes and throwers

HMAS Strahan (J363/M363), named for the town of Strahan, 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]