HMAS Cowra
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History | |
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Australia | |
Namesake | Town of Cowra, New South Wales |
Builder | Poole & Steel |
Laid down | 12 August 1942 |
Launched | 27 May 1943 |
Commissioned | 8 October 1943 |
Decommissioned | 4 December 1946 |
Recommissioned | 20 February 1951 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1953 |
Reclassified | Training ship (1951) |
Honours and awards |
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Fate | Sold for scrap in 1961 |
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 | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
Propulsion | triple expansion engine, 2 shafts |
Speed | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
Armament |
HMAS Cowra (J351/M351), named for the town of Cowra, 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]