HMAS Kiama
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HMAS Kiama (J-353/M-353), named for the town of Kiama on the south coast of New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 3 July 1943 by Mrs. G. Lawson, wife of the Minister for Transport, and commissioned on 26 January 1944. HMAS Kiama paid off to reserve on 3 April 1946, was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy on 5 March 1952 and renamed HMNZS Kiama.