HMAS Lithgow (J206)
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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.
[edit] References
- ^ Smith, A.E. [1991] (May 1992). Three Minutes of Time - the torpedoing of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur, Second Printing, Miami: Tasman Press, 35. ISBN 0-646-07631-0.
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