HMAS Mallow

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Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Mallow
Builder: Barclay Curle, Glasgow
Launched: 13 July 1915
Fate: Transferred to Royal Australian Navy, 1919
Career (Australia)
Name: HMAS Mallow
Acquired: 1919
Decommissioned: 20 November 1925
Fate: Sunk as a target, 24 April 1935
General characteristics
Class and type: Acacia-class sloop
Displacement: 1,200 long tons (1,219 t)
Length: 250 ft (76 m) p/p
262 ft 6 in (80.01 m) o/a
Beam: 33 ft (10 m)
Draught: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Propulsion: 1 × 4-cylinder triple expansion engine
2 × cylindrical boilers
1 screw
Range: 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) with max. 250 tons of coal
Complement: 77
Armament: • 2 × 12-pdr (76 mm) guns
• 2 × 3-pdr (47 mm) AA guns

HMAS Mallow was an Acacia-class sloop built for the Royal Navy by Barclay Curle at Glasgow in Scotland, launched on 13 July 1915 and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1919. Mallow paid off to reserve on 18 October 1919, was decommissioned on 20 November 1925 and sunk as a target on 24 April 1935.