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Orara

Ships

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT	Dimensions, m	Speed, kts	Machinery, Fuel, t	Armament	Fate
Matai (RNZN)	11.6.1930 // 4.1941	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	1050	66.7(pp)x10.7x	11	2VTE		returned 1946
Orara (RAN) J130	5.11.1907 // 10.1939	Scott of Kinghorn	1297	73.2(pp)x10.3x	15	1VTE		depot ship 1945
Raub	1926 // 9.1939	Taikoo, Hong Kong	1161	70.7(pp)x13.0x		2VTE		sunk 22.1.1942

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels

Abeille 109 (1941 - 1946), Abeille 110 (1941 - 1946), Abeille 145 (1941 - 1946), Abeille 148 (1941 - 1946), Abeille 150 (1941 - 1946), Abeille 152 (1941 - 1946), Africana (SAN)(1930, 313, 1 - 76/40, 9.1939 - 4.1947), Aik Lam (1941, 155, 1941 - 1944), Alarm, 1.1942 - Alarm II (1919, 432, 1940 - 1946), Al Hathera (1927, 279, 1941 - 1945), Allenwood (RAN) (1920, 398, 9.1941 - 1945),  Andromeda (1910, 658, 1941 - 18.4.1942), Banka (1914, 623, 1940 - 10.12.1941), Bermagui (RAN) (1912, 402, 12.1939 - 7.1945), Bichgrove Park (RAN) (1930, 640, 8.1941 - 1946), Bombo (RAN) (1930, 540, 5.1941 - 1944), Breeze (RNZN) (1933, 622, 10.1942 - 1945), Burlington, 1940 - Soothsayer (1921, 2068, 5.1940 - 1944), Changteh (1914, 244, 4.1940 - 14.2.1942), Chinthe (1932, 668), Circe, 1942 - Medea (1942 - RAN) (1912, 778, 1 - 102, 11.1939 - 1946), Coolebar (RAN) (1911, 479, 12.1939 - 1944), Coombar (RAN) (1912, 581, 4.1941 - 1946), Couronne (1935, 227, 7.1940 - 1943), Doomba (RAN) (1919, 750, 1 - 102/45, 1 - 40/56, 9.1939 - 2.1947), Duchess (RNZN) (1897, 314, 6.1940 - 1.1944), Fuh Wo (1922, 953, 6.1940 - ?.3.1942), Gale (RNZN) (1935, 622, 4.1941 - 10.1944), Gaston Rivier (315, 8.1941 - 1946), Gunbar (RAN) (1911, 501, 12.1940 - 1943), Han Wo (1919, 248, 11.1940 - ?/?/1942), Hawera (RNZN) (1912, 188, 1942 - 1946), Hua Tong (1927, 280, 11.1939 - ?.2.1942), Indira (1918, 637, 4.1940 - 15.12.1941), Jarak (1927, 208, 1941 - 17.2.1942), Kapuni (RNZN) (1909, 190, 4.1941 - 1946), Kianga (RAN) (1922, 338, 9.1941 - 1946), Klias (1927, 207, 1.1941 - 15.2.1942), Malacca (1927, 211, 12.1939 - 18.2.1942), Marrawah (RAN) (1910, 472, 9.1941 - 9.1946, lent USN 12.1942 - 8.1945), Medusa, 1942 - Mercedes (RAN) (1913, 793, 11.1939 - 8.1946), Minnie Moller (1909, 377, 2.1940 - 31.12.1941), Muritai (RNZN) (1923, 462, 8.1940 - 1946), Nambucca (RAN) (1936, 489, 1.1940 - ?.12.1945, lent USN 1943 - 1945), Narani (RAN) (1914, 381, 12.1940 - 3.1946), Ndovu (1928, 279, 1941 - 1947), Nguvu (1925, 179, 9.1939 - 1943), Ocean Eagle (RCN) (1919, 420, 1941 - 1944), Paterson (RAN) (1920, 446, 1941 - 1946), Redcap (1910, 313, 1.1943 - 5.1944), Reo II (RCN) (1931, 129, 1941 - 1945), Rhu (1940, 254, 10.1941 - 15.2.1942), Ross Norman (RCN) (1937, 297, 1941 - 1944), St. Aubin (1918, 800, 2.1940 - 1943), St. Sampson (1919, 800, 2.1940 - 7.3.1942), Salvo (1918, 161, 1 - MG, 8.1939 - 11.1945), Sampson (1902, 191, 1941 - 1943), Satyavati (RIN) (1911, 295, 9.1939 - 1945), Scott Harley (1913, 620, 2.1941 - 3.3.1942), Scythe (1915, 100, 12.1939 - 1944), Shako (1913, 121, 8.1939 - 11.1945), Shun Wo (1917, 220, 10.1940 - ?.12.1941), Sin Aik Lee (1928, 198, 9.1939 - ?.2.1942), Slogan (1926, 110, 1 - MG, 11.1939 - 1943), Souvenir (1914, 120, 2 - MG, 1939 - 8.1944), Spray (RCN) (1907, 118, 1941 - 1945), Standard Coaster (RCN) (1927, 150, 5.1941 - 1944), Tambar (RAN) (1912, 456, 11.1939 - 1943),  Tanjore (RIN) (,, 6.1941 - ?.6.1942), Tapah (1926, 208, 9.1939 - 9.3.1942), Taurus, 1943 - Hyades (1931, 107, 1941 - 1945), Terka (RAN) (1925, 420, 1940 - 1944), Thasos (1897, 130, 5.1940 - 1943), Thomas J. Carroll (1937, 149, 11.1940 - 12.1945), Titan (1928, 574, 1940 - ?.2.1942), Tolga (RAN) (1925, 418, 12.1940 - 1944), Toorie (RAN) (1925, 414, 11.1940 - 1.1943), Tourteau (,, 9.1940 - 1942), Uki (RNZN) (1923, 545, 1 - 76/40, 10.1939 - 10.1944), Wairua (RNZN) (1913, 352, 1941 - 3.1945), Warrawee (RAN) (1909, 423, 12.1939 - 3.1946), William Messina (SAN) (1925, 120, 1942 - 1946), William Scoresby (1926, 326, 10.1939 - 1.1947), Wo Kwang (1927, 350, 3.1940 - ?.2.1942), Zerang (1938, 261, 9.1939 - 7.1944)

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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.