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Hmas DeloraineHMAS Deloraine (J-232/M-232), named for the town of Deloraine, Tasmania, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain in New South Wales, launched on 26 July 1941 by Dame Mary Hughes, wife of the Minister for the Navy, and commissioned on 27 November 1941. Deloraine, in company with USS Edsall, HMAS Katoomba and HMAS Lithgow, attacked and sank the enemy Japanese submarine I-124 on 20 January 1942, the first enemy submarine to be sunk in Australian waters. HMAS Deloraine paid off to reserve at Fremantle on 30 June 1948 and was sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Delta Shipping Company on 8 August 1956. Deloraine
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