The Bathurst class minesweeper, (corvette), HMAS CAIRNS, (LCDR R. E. MacMillan, RANR(S)), was commissioned. CAIRNS was laid down at Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, QLD, on 31 March 1941, and launched on 7 October 1941. Mrs R. D. Webber, (Wife of the Walker’s works manager), performed the launching ceremony.
HMA Ships WARRNAMBOOL, (minesweeper), and SOUTHERN CROSS, (stores carrier), landed troops of Plover Force on Dobo and Wokam islands, in the Arafura Sea.