The 16th MCM Squadron with 6 Bird class minesweepers deploy as part of Operation GARDENING, a minesweeping task to clear a channel into Tonolei Harbour in Bougainville, where US aircraft had ...
HMAS Ibis
Australian Naval History on 7 December 1962
The newly formed 16th MCM Squadron arrived in Australia with the six Bird class minesweepers. ...
Australian Naval History on 7 September 1962
HMAS Tide Austral was renamed HMAS Supply. The name Supply was selected to commemorate the ship of the same name that accompanied the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788. The ...