HMAS Bataan
Service
- 25 May 1945 — 18 October 1954100 days of the war
- Name
- HMAS Bataan
- Namesake
- Battle of Bataan
- Builder
- Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company
- Laid down
- 18 February 1942
- Launched
- 15 January 1944
- Commissioned
- 25 May 1945
- Decommissioned
- 18 October 1954
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 1958 (1958)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,116 long tons (2,150 t)
- Length
- 115.06 m (377.5 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.13 m (36.5 ft)
- Speed
- 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h, 42 mph)
- Complement
- 261
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMAS Bataan was a Tribal-class destroyer (1936) destroyer built for the Royal Australian Navy. She was named for Battle of Bataan. Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company laid her keel on 18 February 1942. Launched on 15 January 1944, she entered service on 25 May 1945.
She was one of 24 ships of her class. The class followed the I-class destroyer and was succeeded by the J class.
Displacement was 2,116 long tons. She measured 115.1 m (377 ft) long with a beam of 11.1 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 36.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 261.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in two twin mountings. Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 100 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 18 October 1954.
She was broken up for scrap in 1958.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 propellers; 2 steam turbines
- Power
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 44000 shp
- Armament
- 2 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × twin 4 inch DP guns
- 6 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 2 pdr (1.6 in (40 mm)) AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 21 inch torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charge throwers
Sister ships
- HMAS Arunta (I30)
- HMAS Warramunga (I44)
- HMCS Athabaskan (G07)
- HMCS Haida
- HMCS Huron (G24)
- HMCS Iroquois (G89)
- HMCS Nootka (R96)
- HMS Afridi (F07)
- HMS Ashanti (F51)
- HMS Bedouin
- HMS Cossack (F03)
- HMS Eskimo (F75)
- HMS Gurkha (F20)
- HMS Maori (F24)
- HMS Mashona
- HMS Matabele
- HMS Mohawk (F31)
- HMS Nubian (F36)
- HMS Punjabi
- HMS Sikh (F82)
- HMS Somali
- HMS Tartar (F43)
- HMS Zulu (F18)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMAS Bataan on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Allan C. Green 1878 - 1954 — State Library of Victoria (cropped, improved contrast, removed background noises) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons