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AUSTRALIAN NAVY - AUSTRALIA

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWII auxiliary patrol and anti-submarine vessels

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Matthew Flinders 1917 // 1941 Morts Dock, Balmain, UK 1180 73.4x11.3x   2VTE   returned 1946
Wyrallah, 2.1942 - Wilcania 18.8.1934 // 9.1940 Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark 1049 66.0(pp)x11.2x 10.5 1diesel   returned 1.1947

less than 1000 BRT:

Bingera (1935, 922, 12.1939 - 1946), Gerard (1921, 194, 1 - 76/40, 4.1941 - 7.1947), Heros (1919, 382, 1940 - 7.1941), King Bay (1938, 237, 1940 - 1946), Kybra (1926, 858, 1 - 102/40, 7.1940 - 1946), St. Giles (1919, 800, 1939 - 1942), Vigilant, 4.1944 - Sleuth, 3.1945 - Hawk (1938, 106, 1 - 47/40, 1940 - 10.1946), Yandra (1928, 990, 1 - 102/40, 9.1940 - 1946)

Project history: auxiliary patrol and anti-submarine vessels.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service:  Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel.

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