HMAS Wewak
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| Commanding Officer | Lieutenant Luke Weston |
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| Pennant | L 130 |
| Type | Amphibious Warfare |
| Classification | Landing Craft, Heavy (LCH) |
| Class | Balikpapan Class |
| Based | Cairns |
| Laid down | March 1972 |
| Launched | 18 May 1972 |
| Builder | Walker Ltd, Maryborough, Queensland |
| Commissioned | 10 August 1973 |
| Displacement | 323 tonnes (loaded, 511 tonnes) |
| Length | 44.75 metres4,475 cm 0.0448 km 0.0278 mi 146.818 ft 1,761.811 in |
| Beam | 10 metres1,000 cm 0.01 km 0.00621 mi 32.808 ft 393.701 in |
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| Speed | 9 knots4.63 m/s 16.668 km/h 0.00463 km/s 911.418 ft/min 15.19 ft/s |
| Company | 13 (two officers, 11 sailors) |
HMAS Wewak is named after the landing of 6 Division units on 11 May 1945 by the corvettes HMA Ships Dubbo and Colac and by US LSTs.
