HMAS Launceston (J179)

History
Australia
Namesake	City of Launceston, Tasmania
Builder	Evans Deakin & Co
Laid down	23 December 1940
Launched	30 June 1941
Commissioned	9 April 1942
Decommissioned	23 March 1946
Motto	Progress With Prudence
Honours &; awards	Battle honours:; Pacific 1942–45; Indian Ocean 1942–44; East Indies 1944; Okinawa 1945;
Fate	Transferred to Turkish Navy
Badge
Turkey
Name	Ayancik
Renamed	Hamit Naci
Fate	Withdrawn from military service, 1965. Transferred to the Turkish Seamanship College.
General characteristics during RAN service
Class & type	Bathurst-class corvette
Displacement	650 tons (standard), 1,025 tons (full war load)
Length	186 ft (57 m)
Beam	31 ft (9.4 m)
Draught	8.5 ft (2.6 m)
Propulsion	triple expansion engine, 2 shafts, 2,000 hp (1,500 kW)
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) at 1,750 hp
Complement	85
Armament	1 × 12-pounder gun; 3 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (1 later removed); 1 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun (installed later); Machine guns; Depth charges chutes and throwers;

HMAS Launceston (J179/B246/A120), named for the city of Launceston, Tasmania, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II and one of 20 built for the Admiralty but manned by personnel of and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).