HMAS Bathurst
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HMAS Bathurst (J-158), named for the city of Bathurst in New South Wales, was the first of sixty Bathurst class minesweepers, popularly called corvettes, built as part of the Commonwealth Government's wartime shipbuilding programme. The ship was laid down by Cockatoo Docks and Engineering at Sydney in New South Wales on 10 February 1940, launched on 1 August 1940 by Mrs. A. B. Doyle, wife of the Engineer Manager at Garden Island Dockyard, and commissioned on 6 December 1940. HMAS Bathurst was placed in reserve for disposal on 27 September 1946 and sold for scrap to T. Carr and Company of Ultimo in Sydney on 21 June 1948.