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AUSTRALIAN NAVY - AUSTRALIA

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWII auxiliary minelayers

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Bungaree 9.2.1937 // 10.1940 Caledon, Dundee, UK 3155 112.5 x 14.8 x 6.8 11 1VTE+exh turbine, coal 573 2 - 102/40 Mk IV, 1 - 76/40, 467 mines returned 1946

Project history: Merchant vessels requisitioned by Admiralty for minelaying.

Modernizations: 1944: - 2 x 1 - 102/40; + 2 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V

Naval service:  No significant events.

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