Construction
Kapunda was laid down by Poole & Steel at Balmain, New South Wales on 27 August 1941. She was launched on 23 June 1942 by Mary Quirk, the Mary Lily May Quirk, then Member for Balmain in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and was commissioned into the RAN on 21 October 1942.
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