HMAS Cape Leeuwin

History
Australia
Namesake	Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia
Builder	Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Laid down	15 July 1924
Launched	10 December 1924
Commissioned	27 August 1943
Decommissioned	12 December 1945
Fate	Sold 1963, scrapped 1968
General characteristics
Tonnage	1406 gross register tons
Length	225 ft (69 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draught	20 ft (6.1 m)
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun; 5 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon; 2 × Vickers machine gun;

HMAS Cape Leeuwin was a lighthouse tender which was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between mid-1943 and the end of 1945.

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