HMAS LITHGOW (J206)

'HMAS ''Lithgow'' (J206/M206)', named for the city of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain, New South Wales, launched on 21 December 1940 and commissioned on 14 June 1941.
''Lithgow'', in company with USS ''Edsall'', HMAS ''Katoomba'' and HMAS ''Deloraine'', sank the enemy Japanese submarine I-124 off Darwin, the first enemy submarine sunk in Australian waters, on 20 January 1942. In May 1943, ''Lithgow'' was one of several ships to search for survivors following the torpedoing of AHS ''Centaur'', with no success. ^[1]
HMAS ''Lithgow'' paid off to reserve on 8 June 1948 and was sold to the Hong Kong Delta Shipping Company on 8 August 1956.

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1. Three Minutes of Time - the torpedoing of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur, , A.E., Smith, Tasman Press, 1992,