HMAS Norman (G49)

	HMAS Norman at sea
History
Australia
Name	Norman
Builder	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Laid down	27 July 1939
Launched	30 October 1940
Commissioned	29 September 1941
Decommissioned	October 1945
Motto	Cedere Nescio; I Know Not How To Yield;
Honours and; awards	Battle honours:; Indian Ocean 1942–44; East Indies 1944; Burma 1944–45; Okinawa 1945;
Fate	Broken up for scrap
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	N-class destroyer
Displacement	1,773 long tons (1,801 t) (standard); 2,384 long tons (2,422 t) (deep load);
Length	356 ft 6 in (108.7 m) (o/a)
Beam	35 ft 9 in (10.9 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	40,000 shp (30,000 kW); 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	183
Sensors and ; processing systems	ASDIC; Type 285 gunnery radar; Type 286 radar surface-search radar;
Armament	3 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns; 1 × single QF 4-inch Mk V (102 mm) AA gun; 4 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns; 2 × twin QF 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III machineguns; 1 × quintuple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes ; 45 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers;

HMAS Norman (G49/D16) was an N-class destroyer operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II. Entering service in 1941, the ship was on loan from the Royal Navy.

Early in her career, Norman participated in Operation Vigorous and the Madagascar campaign, but spent most of the time between 1942 and the start of 1945 on uneventful patrols of the Indian Ocean. In January 1945, the destroyer was involved in the Burma campaign, before being transferred from the British Eastern Fleet to the British Pacific Fleet. During April and May, Norman was involved in the Battle of Okinawa, but then spent the rest of World War II as the duty destroyer at Manus Island.

Norman was returned to the Royal Navy in October 1945. The ship was not reactivated, and was broken up for scrap in 1958.

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