The auxiliary minesweeper HMAS ALFIE CAM, was commissioned. ALFIE CAM, (as ASAMA, fishing trawler), was laid down in 1919, in Cardiff, Wales. She was requisitioned for the RAN on 28 July 1940, from her owners Cam & Sons, Sydney.
HMAS SYDNEY and HMS NEPTUNE, (cruisers), sank the Italian tanker ERMIOMI in the Aegean Sea.