HMAS Parkes
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| Career Australia |  |
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| Builder: | Evans Deakin Ltd, Brisbane |
| Laid down: | March 16, 1943 |
| Launched: | October 30, 1943 |
| Commissioned: | May 25, 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | December 17, 1945 |
| Status: | Scrapped |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 650 tons |
| Length: | 186 feet |
| Beam: | 31 feet |
| Draught: | 8.5 feet |
| Propulsion: | triple expansion engine, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 15 knots |
| Complement: | 85 |
| Armament: | 1 x 4-inch gun, 3 x Oerlikons, Machine guns, Depth charges chutes and throwers |
| Motto: | Equals with Equals |
HMAS Parkes was a Bathurst class corvette, named for the town of Parkes in New South Wales, laid down by Evans Deakins and Company at Brisbane in Queensland on March 16, 1943, launched on October 30, 1943 by Mrs Brown, wife of the President of the Senate, and commissioned on May 25, 1944.
HMAS Parkes paid off to reserve on December 17, 1945 in Fremantle. The vessel was sold for scrap to Hong Kong Rolling Mills Ltd on May 2, 1957
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