&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMAS_Ipswich_(AWM_P00433-007).jpg) HMAS Ipswich in 1944
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| History | |
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 Australia | |
| Namesake | City of Ipswich, Queensland |
| Builder | Evans Deakin & Co, Brisbane |
| Laid down | 6 March 1941 |
| Launched | 11 August 1941 |
| Commissioned | 13 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 5 July 1946 |
| Motto | "Dare to Defy" |
| Honours and awards |
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| Fate | Transferred to the Netherlands |
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 Netherlands | |
| Name | Morotai |
| Namesake | Morotai Island |
| Commissioned | 5 July 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 1949 |
| Fate | Transferred to Indonesia |
 Indonesia | |
| Name | Hang Tuah |
| Namesake | Hang Tuah |
| Commissioned | 1949 |
| Fate | |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bathurst-class corvette |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 186 ft (57 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught | 8.5 ft (2.6 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) at 1,750 hp |
| Complement | 85 |
| Armament |
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HMAS Ipswich (J186/B244/A118), named for the city of Ipswich, Queensland, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes built during World War II and one of 20 built on Admiralty order but manned by personnel of and later commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).[2]
Ipswich was later operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) as HNLMS Morotai, and by the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) as KRI Hang Tuah.[2] In Indonesian service in 1958 the ship was attacked by a CIA aircraft[1] and sunk with considerable loss of life.[3]
- ^ a b Conboy & Morrison 1999, p. 116.
- ^ a b "HMAS Ipswich (I)". Sea Power Centre Australia. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ^ Lind, Lew (1986) [1982]. The Royal Australian Navy – Historic Naval Events Year by Year (2nd ed.). Frenchs Forest, NSW: Reed Books. ISBN 0-7301-0071-5. OCLC 16922225.