The Australian Maryborough corvette (HMAS Maryborough) had board numbers J195/B248/A122. It belonged to the Bathurst class.
The Maryborough corvette was built in Australia at the Walkers Limited shipyard in Maryborough on the east coast of Australia.
Maryborough corvette construction commenced on April 16, 1940, launched on October 17, 1940, and commissioned into the Australian Navy on June 12, 1941.
Main characteristics: displacement – 650 tons standard, 1025 tons – full. Length – 56.6 m, width – 9.4 m, draft – 2.6 m. Power plant capacity – 2 thousand hp. The maximum speed is 15 knots. Crew – 85 people.
Armament – one 101.6-mm cannon (QF 4 inch Mk XIX) at the bow, one 40-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun Pom-pom (QF 2 pound 1.6″ AA gun) at the stern, two 20-mm automatic anti-aircraft guns Oerlikon along the sides, two depth charge release devices (stock – up to 40).
From November 1942 to December 1944, the Maryborough corvette was under the operational command of the British Eastern Fleet. It served in the Pacific Ocean (1942), Indian Ocean (1942, 1944) and Mediterranean Sea (1942-1943), where he participated in the Allied landings in Sicily in the summer of 1943.
The corvette was withdrawn from the Australian Navy in December 1945.
The photo source: Australian Department of Defense.
Location: Mediterranean Sea
Photo time: 1943