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| | |image_caption=HMAS ''Junee'' as a training ship in 1954. Her wartime armament has been replaced with two 40 mm Bofors guns. | ||
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| | |country=Australia | ||
| | |flag={{shipboxflag|Australia|naval-1913}} | ||
| | |namesake=Town of [[Junee, New South Wales]] | ||
| | |builder=[[Poole & Steel]] | ||
| | |laid_down=17 February 1943 | ||
| | |launched=16 November 1943 | ||
| | |commissioned=11 April 1944 | ||
}} | |decommissioned=21 January 1946 | ||
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| | |recommissioned=25 February 1953 | ||
| | |decommissioned=21 August 1957 | ||
| | |reclassified=Training ship (1953) | ||
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*[[New Guinea campaign|New Guinea]] 1943 | |nickname= | ||
*[[South West Pacific theatre of World War II|Pacific]] 1944–45 | |honours=*'''Battle honours:''' | ||
| | *[[New Guinea campaign|New Guinea]] 1943 | ||
| | *[[South West Pacific theatre of World War II|Pacific]] 1944–45 | ||
| | |fate=Sold for scrap in 1958 | ||
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| | |class=[[Bathurst-class corvette|''Bathurst''-class corvette]] | ||
| | |displacement=650 tons (standard), 1,025 tons (full war load) | ||
| | |length={{convert|186|ft|m|abbr=on}} | ||
| | |beam={{convert|31|ft|m|abbr=on}} | ||
| | |draught={{convert|8.5|ft|m|abbr=on}} | ||
| | |propulsion=triple expansion engine, 2 shafts, 1,800 horspeower | ||
| | |speed={{convert|15|kn}} at 1,750 hp | ||
|complement=85 | |||
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|armament=1 × [[QF 4 inch Mk XIX naval gun|4-inch gun]] | |||
1 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm anti-aircraft gun]] | 1 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm anti-aircraft gun]] | ||
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'''HMAS ''Junee'' (J362/M362)''', named for the town of [[Junee, New South Wales]], was one of 60 [[Bathurst-class corvette|''Bathurst''-class corvettes]] constructed during [[World War II]], and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned solely by the [[Royal Australian Navy]] (RAN).<ref name=SPC>{{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-junee-i |title=HMAS Junee (I) |accessdate=26 December 2008 |work=HMA Ship Histories |publisher=Sea Power Centre – Royal Australian Navy |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117084159/http://www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_Junee_%28I%29 |archivedate=17 January 2010 }}</ref> | '''HMAS ''Junee'' (J362/M362)''', named for the town of [[Junee, New South Wales]], was one of 60 [[Bathurst-class corvette|''Bathurst''-class corvettes]] constructed during [[World War II]], and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned solely by the [[Royal Australian Navy]] (RAN).<ref name=SPC>{{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-junee-i |title=HMAS Junee (I) |accessdate=26 December 2008 |work=HMA Ship Histories |publisher=Sea Power Centre – Royal Australian Navy |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117084159/http://www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_Junee_%28I%29 |archivedate=17 January 2010 }}</ref> | ||
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Design and construction
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Junee was laid down by Poole & Steel at Balmain, New South Wales on 17 February 1943.[1] She was launched on 16 November 1943 by the wife of John Solomon Rosevear, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, and commissioned into the RAN on 11 April 1944.[1]
Operational history
World War II
After entering active service, Junee was briefly assigned to New Guinea before being redeployed to Darwin, where she served as an anti-submarine patrol ship until February 1945, when the corvette underwent refit in Melbourne.[1]
In April 1945, Junee was sent to New Guinea, to serve as a convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol ship.[1] In August, the corvette fired her weapons in anger for the first time; sinking three Japanese supply barges while in the Sangir Islands.[1] The corvette was later assigned to Balikpapan as a guard ship, where she remained until the end of World War II.[1]
Following the end of the war, Junee evacuated Australian prisoners-of-war and civilians, assisted in the transportation of occupation forces, and aided in the reestablishment of Dutch authority in the Netherlands East Indies.[1] After fulfilling these duties, Junee returned to Australia, and was paid off into reserve in Melbourne on 21 January 1946.[1]
Junee received two battle honours for her wartime service: "New Guinea 1943" and "Pacific 1944–45".[10][11]
Post-war
The corvette was reactivated and recommissioned as a training ship on 25 February 1953.[1] Initially operating along the east coast, Junee was reassigned to the west coast on 25 August, operating from Fremantle.[1]
Decommissioning and fate
HMAS Junee paid off to reserve for the final time at Fremantle on 21 August 1957.[1] She was sold for scrap to W. G. Davies of Fremantle on 18 June 1958.[1] The ship was stripped and the hull sunk in the Rottnest ship graveyard off Rottnest Island, Western Australia on 6 or 7 September 1968.[1][12]
Citations
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- ↑ a b c Stevens, The Australian Corvettes, p. 1
- ↑ Stevens, A Critical Vulnerability, p. 103
- ↑ Stevens, A Critical Vulnerability, pp. 103–4
- ↑ Stevens, A Critical Vulnerability, pp. 103–5
- ↑ Stevens, A Critical Vulnerability, p. 104
- ↑ Stevens, A Critical Vulnerability, pp. 105, 148
- ↑ Donohue, From Empire Defence to the Long Haul, p. 29
- ↑ Stevens et al., The Royal Australian Navy, p. 108
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