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Orara

Ships

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT	Dimensions, m	Speed, kts	Machinery, Fuel, t	Armament	Fate
Orara J130	5.11.1907 // 10.1939	Scott of Kinghorn	1297	73.2(pp)x10.3x	15	1VTE		depot ship 1945

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels

Allenwood (1920, 398, 9.1941 - 1945), Bermagui (1912, 402, 12.1939 - 7.1945), Bichgrove Park (1930, 640, 8.1941 - 1946), Bombo (1930, 540, 5.1941 - 1944), Coolebar (1911, 479, 12.1939 - 1944), Coombar (1912, 581, 4.1941 - 1946), Gunbar (1911, 501, 12.1940 - 1943), Kianga (1922, 338, 9.1941 - 1946), Marrawah (1910, 472, 9.1941 - 9.1946, lent USN 12.1942 - 8.1945), Medusa, 1942 - Mercedes (1913, 793, 11.1939 - 8.1946), Nambucca (1936, 489, 1.1940 - ?.12.1945, lent USN 1943 - 1945), Narani (1914, 381, 12.1940 - 3.1946), Paterson (1920, 446, 1941 - 1946), Tambar (1912, 456, 11.1939 - 1943), Terka (1925, 420, 1940 - 1944), Tolga (1925, 418, 12.1940 - 1944), Toorie (1925, 414, 11.1940 - 1.1943), Warrawee (1909, 423, 12.1939 - 3.1946)

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Project history

requisitioned merchant vessels used as minesweepers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel. There were many coasters, tugs and other vessels used as minesweepers with tonnage less than 100 BRT.