HMAS WATERHEN, (destroyer), collided with, and sank, HMS BANDOLERO, (anti-submarine trawler), off Sollum, Libya. Damage to WATERHEN required a month in dock to repair.
HMAS VOYAGER, (destroyer), captured the 190 ton Italian supply schooner ZINGARELLA, in a night sweep off Sollum, Libya. CMDR Morrow reported in the destroyer’s Proceedings, that ‘when the schooner was boarded it was found that British POWs had turned the tables on their Italian captors and taken the vessel. More than 100 crewmen and passengers were battened below’. The schooner was escorted into Sollum.
The auxiliary minesweeper HMAS TOLGA, was commissioned. TOLGA, (as SIR T HUGH BELL, ex-DORLONCO), was laid down in Dorman Long & Co, Sydney, in 1925. She was requisitioned for the RAN, from her owners, the Adelaide Steamship Co, (who had renamed her TOLGA), on 1 November 1940.