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HMAS Gympie

HMAS Hawkesbury – The Pathos of Palawan

Thomson, Max · Mar 23, 1998 ·

For an RAN ship, Palawan on the edge of the South China Sea was a unique place indeed to visit; especially amid circumstances that were dramatic to say the least. ...

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Australian Naval History on 6 january 1961

On This Day · Jan 6, 1961 ·

HMA Ships, ARARAT, COWRA, FREMANTLE, GYMPIE, ROCKHAMPTON, and STRAHAN, (minesweepers), were sold out of service for breaking up. GYMPIE was broken up at Sydney and the other ships in Japan. ...

Australian Naval History on 23 May 1946

David Stratton · May 23, 1946 ·

HMAS Gympie paid off into Reserve at Brisbane, after having steamed over 100,000 miles. On 4 November 1947 Gympie’s sister ship, HMAS Lithgow, sailed from Brisbane with Gympie in tow ...

Australian Naval History on 3 October 1945

David Stratton · Oct 3, 1945 ·

HMAS Gympie, in company with HMA Ships Moresby, Hawkesbury (I), Katoomba and Gladstone, were present at Koepang in Portuguese Timor for the surrender of the 48th Japanese Division. A naval ...

Australian Naval History on 28 May 1944

On This Day · May 28, 1944 ·

HMA Ships GOULBURN and GYMPIE, (minesweepers), bombarded Japanese positions at Bunabun Harbour, in preparation for an Allied landing. ...

Australian Naval History on 12 May 1944

On This Day · May 12, 1944 ·

HMA Ships GOULBURN, GYMPIR, STAWELL, and KAPUNDA, (corvettes), with ML431, ML806, and ML424, bombarded Karkar Island. ...

Australian Naval History on 18 December 1943

David Stratton · Dec 18, 1943 ·

HMAS Gladstone, in company with HMA Ships Gympie (I) and Stawell (I), were escorting convoy TN 192 of eight ships with troops embarked bound for Milne Bay when almost the ...

Australian Naval History on 17 June 1943

On This Day · Jun 17, 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 22 January 1943

On This Day · Jan 22, 1943 ·

The Japanese submarine I-21 torpedoed the merchant ship PETER H BURNETT 420 miles east of Sydney. The destroyer USS ZANE, and corvettes HMAS DELORAINE and HMAS GYMPIE, were sent to ...

Australian Naval History on 4 November 1942

On This Day · Nov 4, 1942 ·

The Bathurst class minesweeper, (corvette), HMAS GYMPIE, (LCDR C. W. J. Patterson, RANR), was commissioned. GYMPIE was laid down in Evans Deakin Yard, Brisbane, on 27 August 1941, and launched ...

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