HMAS Inverell

HMAS Inverell transferring liberated prisoners of war to HMAS Maidstone off Makassar, Dutch East Indies in September 1945
History
Australia
Namesake	Town of Inverell, New South Wales
Builder	Mort's Dock & Engineering Co
Laid down	7 December 1941
Launched	2 May 1942
Commissioned	17 September 1942
Decommissioned	14 June 1946
Identification	Pennant number: J233 or M233
Fate	Transferred to RNZN
New Zealand
Acquired	5 March 1952
Commissioned	10 April 1952
Decommissioned	1952
Recommissioned	15 August 1965
Decommissioned	19 August 1976
Reclassified	Training and fisheries protection vessel
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Darwin 1942 Pacific 1942–45
Fate	Sold for scrap on 1 November 1977
General characteristics in RAN service
Class and type	Bathurst-class corvette
Displacement	650 tons standard 1,025 tons full 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 ihp (1,500 kW)
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 reduced to 2) 1 × 40 mm gun (installed later) Machine guns Depth charges chutes and throwers

HMAS Inverell, named for the town of Inverell, 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]

After World War II, the corvette was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), where she served from 1952 to 1976.