Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index HMAS Armidale (J-240) was a Bathurst class corvette, named for the city of Armidale, laid down by Morts Dock and Engineering Company at Balmain in New South Wales on 1 September 1941. As the ship was built in a dock she was floated on 24 January 1942 with the ceremony officiated by Reverend A. G. Rix and commissioned at Sydney on 11 June 1942. HMAS Armidale was attacked off Betano by thirteen enemy Japanese aircraft on 1 December 1942 and sank with the loss of 40 of her crew and 60 men of the Netherlands East Indies Army who were embarked. A Fremantle class patrol boat announced in August 1980 was to be named Armidale but the vessel was cancelled. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.