HMAS Colac

HMAS Colac

HMAS "Colac" (J242/M05), named for the town of Colac in Victoria, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain in New South Wales on 18 April 1941, launched on 30 August 1941 by Miss M. Heady, senior lady on the staff of Morts Dock and Engineering and commissioned on 6 January 1942.

HMAS Colac paid off to reserve on 27 November 1945 but recommissioned as a training ship on 20 February 1951. She paid off to reserve on 30 January 1953. In 1962 she was converted to a tank cleaning vessel and served in that capacity until 30 September 1983. On 4 March 1987 she was sunk by a Mark 48 torpedo fired by the submarine HMAS "Ovens" in a weapons test.


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