![]() HMAS Cessnock c. 1942
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Namesake | City of Cessnock, New South Wales |
Builder | Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company |
Laid down | 16 April 1941 |
Launched | 17 October 1941 |
Commissioned | 26 January 1942 |
Decommissioned | 12 July 1946 |
Motto | "No Steps Backward" |
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Fate | Sold for scrap in 1947 |
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, 2 shafts, 1,750 hp |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
Armament | 1 × 4 inch Mk XIX gun, 3 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (later 2), 1 Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun (installed later), various machine guns and small arms, Depth charge chutes and throwers |
HMAS Cessnock (J175/B240/A114), named for the town of Cessnock, New South Wales, 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]