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HMAS HDML 1324

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Commissioned
  
12 June 1944

Weight
  
58.9 tons

Displacement
  
58 tons

Builder
  
A.McFarlane and Sons, Birkenhead

Class and type
  
Harbour Defence Motor Launch

Armament
  
2 x 20mm 2 x machine guns 8 depth charges

HMAS HDML 1324, also known as Nepean was a 58-ton Harbour Defence Motor Launch of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by A.McFarlane and Sons, Birkenhead, South Australia and commissioned into the RAN on 12 June 1944. She was at the Timor surrender of the Japanese occupying forces in 1945. She was later reclassified as a Seaward Defence Boat. Parts from HDML 1324 were used to refit SDB 1325.

References

HMAS HDML 1324 Wikipedia