Coastwatcher LEUT W.J. Read, RANVR, signalled from Buka Passage:- “A ship, which may be a cruiser and probably another, entered Kessa 1 pm, believe from the north. Heavy destroyer and ...
On This Day
Australian Naval History on 27 September 1942
HMA Ships WARRNAMBOOL, and KALGOORLIE, (corvettes), arrived back in Darwin, NT, after rescuing the ship’s company of HMAS VOYAGER, (destroyer), from Betano Bay. Some were wounded, but not a man ...
Australian Naval History on 24 September 1942
HMAS NIZAM, (destroyer), captured the French Vichy vessel MARECHAL GALLIENI in the Mozambique Channel. LEUT V. Cohen, RANVR, sailed the ship as a prize to Durban. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 September 1942
HMAS STUART re-embarked the Australian 2/10th Battalion, and eight Japanese POWs, from Normanby Island. The prisoners were survivors of the Japanese destroyer YAYOI, sunk off the island by American bombers ...
Australian Naval History on 22 September 1942
HMAS GLENELG, (minesweeper), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. HMAS STUART, (destroyer), landed the Australian 2/lOth Battalion on Normanby Island, New Guinea. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 September 1942
The cutter HMAS MAROUBRA, was commissioned. MAROUBRA was laid down in Brisbane in 1930. She was requisitioned for the RAN, from her owners, the Australian Petroleum Co Ltd, on 20 ...
Australian Naval History on 20 September 1942
HMAS Nizam and HMS Hotspur chased Vichy ship, the Antral Pierre, but this vessel opened her sea cocks and could not be salvaged. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 September 1942
The Bathurst class minesweeper, (corvette), HMAS INVERELL, was commissioned. INVERELL was laid down in Mort’s Dock, Sydney, on 6 December 1941, and launched on 2 May 1942. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 September 1942
The Q class destroyer HMAS QUICKMATCH, (CMDR R. Rhoades, RAN), was commissioned at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. LEUT R. H. E. Kerruish, RAN, was navigator of HMS COVENTRY, ...
Australian Naval History on 13 September 1942
ML 352, (LEUT R. G. Worledge, RANVR), picked up survivors from damaged landing craft during an assault by Royal Marine Commandos on Mersa Sciause, near Tobruk. ...