HMAS Broome
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HMAS Broome (J-191), named for the town of Broome in Western Australia, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland on 3 May 1941, launched on 6 October 1941 by Mrs. M. J. McKew, wife of the works manager of Evans Deakin, and commissioned on 29 July 1942. HMAS Broome paid off on 24 August 1946, was sold to the Turkish Navy and renamed Alanya. The ship's bell was removed as a relic prior to transfer to Turkey and landed at Broome from HMAS Mildura on 20 May 1952. It was presented to the Broome Road Board by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia on 29 June 1952. The Board subsequently presented the bell to the Broome State School on 7 November 1952 where it is now hung and in use.