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HMAS Castlemaine

HMAS Castlemaine
Career Australia
Class and type:Bathurst class corvette
Named after:City of Castlemaine, Victoria
Builder:Melbourne Harbour Trust
Laid down:17 February 1941
Launched:7 August 1941
Commissioned:17 June 1942
Decommissioned:14 December 1945
Reclassified:Immobilised training hulk (1945)
Museum ship (1973)
Status:
General Characteristics
Displacement:650 tons (standard), 1,025 tons (full war load)
Length:186 feet
Beam:31 feet
Draught:8.5 feet
Propulsion:triple expansion engine, 2 shafts. 2,000 hp
Speed:15 knots at 1,750 hp
Complement:85
Armament:1 x 4-inch gun, 3 x Oerlikons, Machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers
Motto:"Watch and Prey"
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HMAS Castlemaine (J244/M244/A248), named for the city of Castlemaine in Victoria, Australia, is a Bathurst class corvette of the Royal Australian Navy.

Laid down by the Melbourne Harbour Trust at Williamstown in Victoria on 17 February 1941, launched on 7 August 1941 by the then Mrs. R. G. Menzies (wife of Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies) and commissioned at Melbourne on 17 June 1942.

Castlemaine paid off to reserve on 14 December 1945 and was immobilised at HMAS Cerberus at Crib Point in Victoria as a training hulk for Engine Room Artificers, who ran the boilers in part providing steam heating throughout the base.

In September 1973 the Minister for Defence announced that the Australian Government had made a gift of HMAS Castlemaine to the Maritime Trust of Australia to become a maritime museum. Castlemaine is presently berthed at Gem Pier, Williamstown, Victoria, adjacent to the historic Customs House.

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Bathurst class corvettes were a class of minesweepers produced in Australia during World War II. 60 Bathurst class corvettes in total were commissioned; 36 for the Royal Australian Navy, 20 for the Admiralty (these were crewed by Australians and were absorbed into
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Castlemaine
Victoria

Location of Castlemaine in Victoria (red)

Population: 6,797 (2006)[1]

Postcode: 3450

Elevation: 310.
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beam of a ship is its width at the widest point, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. Generally speaking, the wider a ship (or boat)'s beam, the more initial stability she will have, at expense of reserve stability in the event of a capsize, where more
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Castlemaine
Victoria

Location of Castlemaine in Victoria (red)

Population: 6,797 (2006)[1]

Postcode: 3450

Elevation: 310.
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Slogan or Nickname: "Garden State", "The Place to Be"
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Capital Canberra

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Bathurst class corvettes were a class of minesweepers produced in Australia during World War II. 60 Bathurst class corvettes in total were commissioned; 36 for the Royal Australian Navy, 20 for the Admiralty (these were crewed by Australians and were absorbed into
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corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft. During the Age of Sail, corvettes were smaller than frigates and larger than sloops-of-war, usually with a single gun deck.
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Melbourne, Victoria

Nelson Place, in the restaurant precinct.

Population: 12,733 (2006)[1]

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Location of Melbourne in Australia

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