HMAS Ipswich (l)
HMAS Ipswich was one of fifty-six Bathurst Class, Australian Minesweepers (commonly known as corvettes) built during World War II in Australian shipyards. Ipswich was almost constantly at sea on escort and anti-submarine patrol duty in the western Indian Ocean and between the Persian Gulf and India.
- Commissioned
13 June 1942 - Decommissioned
5 July 1946 - Fate
On 5 July 1946, at Colombo, Ipswich paid off and was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy, to be renamed Morotai. In 1949 the ship was transferred by the Royal Netherlands Navy to the Indonesian Navy and renamed Hang Tuah. In April 1958 she was bombed and sunk by an aircraft operated by forces in rebellion against the Indonesian Government.