HMAS Coolebar
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Coolebar
Himatangi
HMAS Coolebar- East River
- North Coast Steam Navigation Company (1911-1929, 1936-1945)
- Himatangi Shipping Co Ltd (Holm & Co) (1930)
- Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company (1931-1936)
- Royal Australian Navy (1945-1946)
- A.J. Ellerker and Company (1946–47)
- Fu Chan (1948-1949)
.jpg) Coolebar in civilian service | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Builder | Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ardrossan, Scotland |
| Launched | 21 October 1911 |
| In service | 1911 |
| Out of service | September 1949 |
| Fate | Sank in 1949 |
| History | |
 Australia | |
| Name | HMAS Coolebar |
| Commissioned | 18 December 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 18 February 1943 |
| Recommissioned | 1 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 1 June 1945 |
| Reclassified | Stores carrier (1943) |
| Honours and awards |
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| Fate | Returned to civilian service |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steamer/Auxiliary minesweeper |
| Displacement | 479 tons |
| Length | 150 ft 3 in (45.80 m) o/a |
| Beam | 30 ft (9.14 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 4 officers and 17 ratings |
| Armament | |
HMAS Coolebar (J25), was a merchant steamer launched in 1911, that was requisitioned and commissioned as an auxiliary minesweeper and stores carrier during World War II by the Royal Australian Navy.
Coolebar was built in 1911 in Ardrossan, Scotland by the Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding company for the Australian North Coast Steam Navigation Company. Initially working as a steamer in Australian waters, the ship was sold to the Himatangi Shipping Company in Wellington, New Zealand in 1930, where she was renamed Himitangi, before being on-sold to the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company in Napier, where she continued to serve until 1936.[1][2]
Returning to Australian waters and ownership with the North Coast Navigation Company, she was renamed Coolebar and continued in civilian usage until the outbreak of World War 2, when she was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy on 20 October 1939.[1][2]