HMAS Deloraine
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HMAS Deloraine (foreground during the Japanese .
HMAS Deloraine (J-232/M-232), named for the town of Deloraine, Tasmania, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain in New South Wales, launched on 26 July 1941 by Dame Mary Hughes, wife of the Minister for the Navy, and commissioned on 27 November 1941.
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HMAS Deloraine (foreground during the Japanese .
The Deloraine, in company with USS Edsall, HMAS Katoomba and HMAS Lithgow, attacked and sank the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-124 — the first enemy submarine to be sunk in Australian waters — on 20 January 1942. The ship survived the Japanese air raids on Darwin, February 19, 1942.
HMAS Deloraine paid off to reserve at Fremantle on 30 June 1948 and was sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Delta Shipping Company on 8 August 1956.