HMAS ORARA, (auxiliary minesweeper), signalled HMAS SWAN, (sloop), on observing her coloured minesweeping lights burning too brightly on her stern:- ‘May I hang my stocking on your Christmas tree?’ SWAN replied:- ‘Yes, and I will shortly be hanging a sprig of mistletoe over my stern’
Australian Naval History on 22 December 1940
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