HMAS Castlemaine (J244/M244/A248), named for the city of Castlemaine, Victoria, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially crewed and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
HMAS Castlemaine
Castlemaine (rear) with HMAS Benalla (right) and HMAS Sleuth (left) off Darwin in 1944.
Castlemaine is a town in west central Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region about 120 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne and about 40 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo. It is the administrative and economic centre of the Shire of Mount Alexander. The population at the 2021 Census was 7,506. Castlemaine was named by the chief goldfield commissioner, Captain W. Wright, in honour of his Irish uncle, Viscount Castlemaine.
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Image: Castlemaine Town Hall 2023 (cropped)
Image: Post Office Castlemaine sm (cropped)
Image: Castlemaine Uniting Church