HMAS Cairns (J183)

HMAS Cairns
History
Australia
Namesake	City of Cairns, Queensland
Builder	Walkers Limited
Laid down	31 March 1941
Launched	7 October 1941
Commissioned	11 May 1942
Decommissioned	17 January 1946
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Pacific 1942–45 Indian Ocean 1942–45 Sicily 1943 Okinawa 1945
Fate	Transferred to RNLN
Netherlands
Name	Ambon
Namesake	Ambon Island
Commissioned	17 January 1946
Fate	Transferred to TNI-AL
Indonesia
Name	Banteng
Namesake	Javanese bull
Commissioned	6 April 1950
Fate	Broken up for scrap in 1968
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. 2,000 hp
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) at 1,750 hp
Complement	85
Armament	1 × 4 inch Mk XIX gun, 3 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (later 4), 1 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun (installed later), Machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers

HMAS Cairns (J183), named for the city of Cairns, Queensland, 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]