HMAS Katoomba
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HMAS Katoomba (J-204/M-204), named for the tourist resort of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole and Steele at Balmain in New South Wales on 9 September 1940, launched on 16 April 1942 by Mrs. H. Lloyd, deputy mayoress of Katoomba, and commissioned on 17 December 1941. In company with HMAS Deloraine, HMAS Lithgow and USS Edsall, she was officially credited with destroying the enemy Japanese submarine I-124 on 20 January 1942, the first enemy submarine sunk in Australian waters. HMAS Katoomba paid off to reserve at Fremantle on 2 August 1948 and sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Rolling Mills on 2 May 1957.