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AUSTRALIAN NAVY - AUSTRALIA

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWI auxiliary patrol vessels

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions (LppxB), m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Mourilyan 16.6.1908 // 5.1918 Stephen, Linthouse, UK 1349 67.3x11.0 11.5 2VTE 1 - 120/40, 2-47 stricken 1921

100 - 1000 BRT:

miscellaneous patrol vessels

Coogie (RAN) (ex-Lancashire Witch) (1887, 762, 1-120/40, 5.1918 - 1921); Gannet (RAN) (ex-Penguin) (, 208, 1-76, 7.1918 - 1919)

Project history: merchant vessels converted to armed boarding steamers. They were employed on examination duties at sea for the purpose of enforcing the naval blockade.

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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