FOR COUNTLESS GENERATIONS seamen have navigated by the stars. But it was a ‘Message from the Clouds’ that held the key to the rescue of several hundred servicemen after a ...
HMAS Burdekin
HMAS Barcoo
HMAS BARCOO was one of the eight Australian built River Class anti-submarine frigates laid down during the Second World War. All except Barwon and Macquarie saw active service in the ...
Australian Naval History on 18 April 1946
HMAS Burdekin paid off into Reserve at Melbourne and was laid up at Corio Bay, Geelong. In 1956 she was towed to Sydney. Declared for disposal on 9 November 1960, ...
Australian Naval History on 8 September 1945
HMAS VENDETTA transported 28 released European POW’s from Rabaul to Madang, for repatriation to Australia. The surrender of Dutch Borneo by the Japanese was accepted on board HMAS Burdekin by ...
Australian Naval History on 6 September 1945
The surrender of Dutch Borneo was signed by the Japanese, in HMAS BURDEKIN, (frigate). Twenty five per cent of the 76,000 mines laid by British naval forces in WWII, were ...
Australian Naval History on 1 May 1945
HMA Ships QUICKMATCH and QUIBERON operated off Sakishima, Japan, while screening battleships of the British Pacific Fleet. HMA Ships NEPAL, NORMAN, NIZAM, QUICKMATCH, and QUIBERON supported American landings in the ...
Australian Naval History on 19 November 1944
HMAS BURDEKIN, (frigate), bombarded Japanese positions on Halmahera Island. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 September 1944
HMAS Hawkesbury and HMAS Burdekin were called upon to assist the burning tanker Misson Ridge following her collision with the Liberty Ship Don Marquis near Manus in the Admiralty Islands. ...
Australian Naval History on 27 June 1944
The River class frigate HMAS BURDEKIN, (LCDR T. S. Marchington, RNR), was commissioned. BURDEKIN was laid down in Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, QLD, on 17 January 1942, and launched on 30 ...