- HMAS Bataan (I91)
HMAS "Bataan" (D9/D191/I91) was a "Tribal" class
destroyer laid down byCockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited atSydney inNew South Wales on 18 February 1942, launched on 15 January 1944 by the wife of GeneralDouglas MacArthur , and commissioned at Sydney on 25 May 1945.She was named after the
Battle of Bataan , to honour the scene of resistance by American and Filipino defenders, under the command of GeneralDouglas MacArthur , against an overwhelming Japanese invading force on the island ofLuzon in the Philippine Islands from 1 January to 9 April 1942. She was originally to have been named "Kurnai", after an Australian aboriginal tribe but was renamed "Bataan" as a gesture to the United States for naming one of their ships "Canberra"."Bataan" was present in
Tokyo for the official Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945, [cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq69-2.htm |title=Allied Ships Present in Tokyo Bay During the Surrender Ceremony, 2 September 1945 |accessdate=2007-01-13 |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=27 May 2005|publisher=Naval Historical Center - U.S. Navy|quote=Taken from "Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas (CINCPAC/CINCPOA) A16-3/FF12 Serial 0395, 11 February 1946: Report of Surrender and Occupation of Japan"] and operated in support ofUnited Nations Forces during theKorean War ."Bataan" paid off at Sydney on 18 October 1954 and was laid up in reserve awaiting conversion to an anti-submarine escort. The conversion was cancelled in 1957, with "Bataan" placed on the disposal list and sold for scrap to Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Limited of Tokyo on 2 May 1958.
References
External links
* [http://www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_Bataan Sea Power Centre history of HMAS "Bataan"]
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