HMAS DELORAINE

'HMAS ''Deloraine'' (J232/M232)', named for the town of Deloraine, Tasmania, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock & Engineering Co 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.
The ''Deloraine'', in company with USS ''Edsall'', HMAS ''Katoomba'' and HMAS ''Lithgow'', attacked and sank the Japanese submarine ''I-124'' — the first enemy submarine to be sunk in Australian waters — on 20 January 1942.^[1] 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.

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★ A Critical Vulnerability: The Impact of the Submarine Threat on Australia’s Maritime Defence (1915-1954), , David, Stevens, Sea Power Centre, 2005,
1. Stevens (2005). Pp 183-184.