HMAS Glenelg (J236)

HMAS Glenelg (J236)

HMAS "Glenelg" (J236/M236), commissioned on 16 November 1942 and the first ship of the Royal Australian Navy to be named for the city of Glenelg, South Australia, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney in New South Wales on 2 March 1942. "Glenelg" was launched on 25 September 1942 by Mrs. H. V. Evatt, wife of Doctor H. V. Evatt, Minister for External Affairs.

HMAS "Glenelg" was paid off on 14 January 1946 and was sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Rolling Mills on 2 May 1957.

External links

* [http://www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_Glenelg_(I) Sea Power Centre webpage on HMAS Glenelg (I)]


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