An address by RADM Guy Griffiths, AO, DSO, DSC, RAN Retd at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne (Oct 2000) Together with the widely dispersed set-backs in late 1941 – early ...
HMAS Lithgow
Book Review: Sensuikan I-124
Author: Tom Lewis This is the story of the Japanese minelaying submarine I-124, built at Kobe in 1928 and sunk off Darwin on 20th January, 1942. The author also discusses ...
Australian Naval History on 5 July 1984
HMAS COOK, (survey ship), located the wreck of the Japanese submarine I-24, some 37 miles off Darwin. I-24 was the first Japanese vessel sunk by the RAN. She was sunk ...
Bathurst Class Minesweepers (Corvettes)
HERMAN GILL IN HIS HISTORY of the Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942 stated that the Bathurst class minesweepers or corvettes were ‘an Australian modification of an Admiralty design’ and this view ...
HMAS Bendigo – New Guinea 1942
Australian Naval History on 8 August 1956
HMA Ships DELORAINE and LITHGOW were sold out of service for breaking up at Hong Kong. Lieutenants Barry Thompson and Keith Potts of 808 Squadron were both killed when their ...
Australian Naval History on 8 June 1948
HMAS Lithgow paid off to the Reserve Fleet at Fremantle, having steamed 178,000 miles. On 8 August 1956 Lithgow was sold as scrap to the Hong Kong Delta Shipping Company, ...
Australian Naval History on 18 August 1945
The Japanese surrender of Bougainville was signed on board HMAS LITHGOW, (corvette). ...
Australian Naval History on 22 June 1945
HMAS ARUNTA, (destroyer), landed troops at Miri Lutong. HMA Ships DUBBO, KIAMA, and LITHGOW, (minesweepers), shelled Japanese positions on Bougainville. ...
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 15 May 1943
A RAAF Avro Anson, which was providing air escort to USS MUGFORD, (destroyer), and the British steamer SUSSEX, sighted survivors from the HMAS CENTAUR, (hospital ship), off the coast of ...
Australian Naval History on 21 January 1942
Off Darwin, NT, HMA Ships DELORAINE, KATOOMBA, and LITHGOW, (corvettes), with the USS EDSALL, (destroyer), took part in depth-charge attacks which destroyed the Japanese submarine I124, the first warship of ...
Australian Naval History on 17 January 1942
HMAS ECHUCA was launched at Williamstown Naval Dockyard, VIC. The lugger, HMAS ST. FRANCIS, (LEUT (Brother) Andrew Smith, RANVR), sighted a Japanese submarine on the surface off Melville Island. In ...
Australian Naval History on 14 October 1941
HMAS Lithgow swept a German mineoff Tasman Island ...
Australian Naval History on 14 June 1941
The Bathurst class minesweeper, (corvette), HMAS LITHGOW, (CMDR A. V. Knight, RANR), was commissioned. LITHGOW was laid down in Mort’s Dock, Balmain, Sydney, on 19 August 1940, and launched on ...