Australian steamer Adele
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Not to be confused with USS Adela. For other uses, see Adele (disambiguation).
Adele was a steel screw steamer that was built in 1906 as a yacht. She was twice commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), firstly as HMAS Franklin and later as HMAS Adele. She was wrecked at Port Kembla, New South Wales on 7 May 1943.
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Builder | Hawthorn & Co Leith, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Yard number | 116 |
Launched | 18 October 1906 |
Completed | November 1906 |
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Fate | Wrecked 7 May 1943 |
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Type | Steel screw steamer |
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Length | 145 ft 0 in (44.20 m) |
Beam | 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 2 in (4.01 m) |
Propulsion | 1 × 68 hp (51 kW) triple expansion steam engine (Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith) |
Sail plan | Yacht |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Armament | 2 × .303-in Vickers machine guns (HMAS Adele) |
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