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HMAS Warrawee

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Name
  
Warrawee

Launched
  
23 February 1909

Draft
  
3.08 m

Yard number
  
347

Length
  
47 m

Owner
  
Gulf Steamship Company, Port Adelaide (1909-1913) Coast Steamships Ltd (1913-1953)

Builder
  
John Reid & Company, Glasgow

Reinstated
  
UK Official Number 122726

HMAS Warrawee was an examination vessel and auxiliary minesweeper which served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II.

Warrawee was built in 1909 by John Reid & Company, Glasgow, Scotland as a cargo passenger steam ship for the Gulf Steamship Company. She plied the Port Adelaide to Edithburgh and Ardrossan run. At the start of World War II, Warrawee was requisitioned and was commissioned into the RAN as an examination vessel and auxiliary minesweeper on 18 September 1941. She was returned to her owners in 1946.

Fate

She was sold to Howard G Smith in 1953 and was broken up.

References

HMAS Warrawee Wikipedia