HMAS Ipswich (J186)
HMAS Ipswich in 1944 | |
| History | |
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| Australia | |
| Namesake | City of Ipswich, Queensland |
| Builder | Evans Deakin & Co, Brisbane |
| Laid down | 6 March 1941 |
| Launched | 11 August 1941 |
| Commissioned | 13 June 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 5 July 1946 |
| Motto | "Dare to Defy" |
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| Fate | Transferred to the Netherlands |
| Badge | |
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Morotai |
| Namesake | Morotai Island |
| Commissioned | 5 July 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 1949 |
| Fate | Transferred to Indonesia |
| Indonesia | |
| Name | Hang Tuah |
| Namesake | Hang Tuah |
| Commissioned | 1949 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Bathurst-class corvette |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 186 ft (57 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught | 8.5 ft (2.6 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) at 1,750 hp |
| Complement | 85 |
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A CIA aircraft sank Hang Tuah just off Balikpapan in Kalimantan, Indonesia.
HMAS Ipswich (J186/B244/A118), named for the city of Ipswich, Queensland, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes built during World War II and one of 20 built on Admiralty order but manned by personnel of and later commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Ipswich was later operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) as HNLMS Morotai, and by the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) as KRI Hang Tuah. In Indonesian service in 1958 the ship was attacked by a CIA aircraft and sunk with considerable loss of life.