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HMAS Ararat was a Bathurst class corvette, named for the town of Ararat in Victoria, laid down by Evans Deakins and Company at Brisbane in Queensland on 6 July 1942, launched on 20 February 1943 by Mrs. A. W. Fadden, wife of the leader of the Australian Country Party and commissioned on 16 June 1943. HMAS Ararat paid off to reserve on 11 April 1947, and was sold to Burns Philp and Company of Darwin on 6 January 19611961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year i. one that looked the same upside down since 1881, and the last until 6009. Events January January 1 The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, cease. She was later sold to Japanese interests and left Darwin on 20 July 1961 under the control of the Fujita Salvage Company of JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh.