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HMAS Deloraine

HMAS Deloraine was a locally built, Bathurst Class Corvette / minesweeper that served in the Royal Australian Navy in WW2.

HMAS Deloraine was one of sixty Australian Minesweepers (commonly known as corvettes) built during World War II in Australian shipyards as part of the Commonwealth Government's wartime shipbuilding programme. Twenty were built on Admiralty order but manned and commissioned by the Royal Australian Navy. Thirty six (including Deloraine) were built for the Royal Australian Navy and four for the Royal Indian Navy.

HMAS Deloraine was infamously in Darwin Harbour on the 19th February 1942 when  the city was bombed.