HMA Ships Australia, Canberra and Adelaide searched for suspected German minelayers off Gabo Island from the 10th to the 13th.
Following the sighting HMA Ships SWAN and YARRA commenced the first minesweeping operations on the Australian coast in WWII
Australian Naval History on 10 October 1939
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