HMAS Tarakan (L3017)
HMAS Tarakan (L3017) was a Mark III Tank Landing Ship, or LST(3), that served in the Royal Navy (RN) during 1945 and 1946 and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1946 until 1954.
HMAS Tarakan in 1948 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | LST 3017 |
| Builder | R & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Hebburn-on-Tyne, England |
| Laid down | 7 April 1944 |
| Launched | 28 November 1944 |
| History | |
| Australia | |
| Name | LST 3017 |
| Commissioned | 4 July 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 1954 |
| Renamed | 16 December 1948 |
| Motto | "Nothing Daunts" |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Mark III Tank Landing Ship |
| Displacement | 2,300 tons |
| Length | 347 ft (106 m) |
| Beam | 55 ft 3 in (16.84 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
| Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) |
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