HMAS Castlemaine
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HMAS Castlemaine (J-244/M-244/A-248), named for the town of Castlemaine in Victoria, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by the Melbourne Harbour Trust at Williamstown in Victoria on 17 February 1941, launched on 7 August 1941 by Mrs. R. G. Menzies, wife of the Prime Minister and commissioned at Melbourne on 17 June 1942. HMAS Castlemaine paid off to reserve on 14 December 1945 and immobilised at HMAS Cerberus at Crib Point in Victoria as a training hulk for Engine Room Artificers. In September 1973 the Minister for Defence announced that the Australian Government had made a gift of HMAS Castlemaine to the Maritime Trust of Australia to become a maritime museum.
