HMNZS/HMAS Echuca
HMAS Echuca (J252/M252), named for the town of Echuca, Victoria, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
RNZN service
On 5 March 1952, Echuca and three other Bathurst-class corvettes (HMA Ships Inverell, Kiama, and Stawell) were transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN).[12] She was commissioned into the RNZN in May 1952, and received the prefix HMNZS.[13]
The week ( 24th June, 1957), divers from HMNZS Stawell and Echuca – Bathurst Class Corvettes took part in righting and salvaging Auckland Harbour Board Dredge Hapai. Hapai had capsized and sank off Cheltenham Beach on 24th June, 1957.
Echuca was brought out of the reserve to assist with the salvage, her only service in the RNZN. She was then sold in April 1967 and broken up at the Western Viaduct and Meola Creek.
The corvette remained in service with the RNZN until 1967, although from 1953 she was classified as being in reserve.[1][13] She was sold to Pacific Scrap Limited of Auckland for scrapping[1] on 11 April 1967
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Echuca
The image shows the HMAS Echuca, a Bathurst-class corvette that served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II.
- The ship was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes built in Australia during the war.
- It was commissioned on September 7, 1942, and initially served as an anti-submarine patrol and convoy escort vessel along the eastern Australian coast and in New Guinea waters.
- In August 1944, it was ordered to Darwin and attached to the United States Seventh Fleet’s Survey Group.
- After the war, it participated in sweeping operations in New Britain and the Solomon Islands before returning to Australia and being paid off into the Reserve Fleet in August 1946.
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