HMAS Stawell
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HMAS Stawell (J-348/M-348), named for the town of Stawell in Victoria, was a Bathurst class corvette built by the Williamstown Dockyard at Melbourne in Victoria, launched on 3 April 1943 by Mrs. J. J. Dedman, wife of the Minister for War Organisation, and commissioned on 7 August 1943. HMAS Stawell paid off on 26 March 1946, was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy on 5 March 1952 and named HMNZS Stawell, sold for scrap to Pacific Scrap Limited of Auckland in New Zealand and broken up in 1968.