HMAS Glenelg II decommissioned in Darwin after 14 years of service ...
HMAS Glenelg
The Arthur Lunan Story: Part III
The late Arthur Lunan maintained a diary of his service in the RAN from 1941 to 1946. His brother-in-law William Moody digitised this and added some family photographs. William and ...
Australian Naval History on 22 February 2008
The Armidale class patrol boat HMAS GLENELG was commissioned at Port Adelaide, South Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 May 1957
HMA Ships GLENELG, KATOOMBA, and PARKES, (minesweepers), were sold out of service for breaking up at Hong Kong. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 January 1956
HMAS Glenelg paid off into Reserve at Fremantle. On 2 May 1957 Glenelg was sold for breaking up to Hong Kong Rolling Mills Ltd of Hong Kong ...
Australian Naval History on 10 September 1945
The Japanese surrender of Kairiru and Muschu islands was signed on board ML805. HMA Ships GLENELG, COOTAMUNDRA, JUNEE, and LATROBE, (minesweepers), embarked liberated POW’s at Ambon, and transported them to ...
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 20 October 1944
HMAS Glenelg was able to render signal aid to a sorely harassed American patrol at the mouth of the Woske River near Maffin Bay, Dutch New Guinea. While proceeding close ...
Australian Naval History on 17 June 1943
HMA Ships GAWLER and LISMORE, (minesweepers) and two motor minesweepers, picked up 1353 survivors from the troop ship YOMA, sunk by a German submarine off Derna, Libya. Operation Lilliput ended. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 November 1942
The Bathurst class minesweeper, (corvette), HMAS GLENELG, was commissioned. GLENELG was laid down in Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, on 2 March 1942, and launched on 22 September 1942. Mrs H. ...
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. ...