HMAS Bunbury
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have borne the name Bunbury, for a port city in Western Australia.
The first HMAS Bunbury (J-241/M-241) was a Bathurst class corvette built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 16 May 1942 by Mrs. F. A. Cooper, wife of the Treasurer of Queensland, and commissioned on 3 January 1943. HMAS Bunbury paid off to reserve on 26 August 1946 and was sold for scrap to the Kinoshita Company of Japan on 6 January 1961.
The second HMAS Bunbury (P-217) is a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down by the North Queensland Engineers and Agents at Cairns in Queensland on 13 June 1983, launched on 3 November 1984, commissioned on 15 December 1984 and decommissioned in 2005.
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