HMAS Platypus (previously HMAS Penguin) recommissioned to resume seagoing service as a training ship.
The depot ship and accommodation vessel HMAS KUTTABUL, was commissioned. KUTTABUL was laid down in Walsh Island Yard, Newcastle, NSW, in 1922, as a passenger ferry. She was requisitioned for the RAN on 7 November 1940.
Australian Naval History on 26 February 1941
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