HMAS Manoora paid off. She was returned to the Adelaide Steam Ship Company on 31 August 1949 ...
HMAS Manoora I
Australian Naval History on 1 July 1945
HMA Ships ARUNTA, HOBART, SHROPSHIRE, KANIMBLA, MANOORA, and WESTRALIA, participated in the assault on Balikpapan, Borneo. HMAS MINDARI, (gunnery instruction centre), was commissioned at Woolloomooloo, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 June 1945
SBA Alec Hill was executed by the Japanese after being a POW since February 1945. SBA Hill was from HMAS Manoora which had arrived at Morotai in January 1945 and ...
Australian Naval History on 10 June 1945
Dentists were first attached to destroyer flotillas in the RAN. HMA Ships SHROPSHIRE, HOBART, ARUNTA, LACHLAN, HAWKESBURY, WESTRALIA, MANOORA, and KANIMBLA, engaged in the invasion of Brunei. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 May 1945
HMA Ships WESTRALIA and MANOORA, (landing ships), completed landing Australian troops at Tarakan. HMA Ships SWAN, (sloop), and COLAC and IPSWICH, (minesweepers), bombarded Japanese positions at Wewak, New Guinea, in ...
Australian Naval History on 14 February 1945
The River class frigate HMAS LACHLAN was commissioned. LACHLAN was laid down at Mort’s Dock, Sydney, and launched on 25 March 1944. LACHLAN, carrying the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, ...
Australian Naval History on 9 January 1945
HMAS AUSTRALIA suffered her fifth kamikaze attack. The Japanese aircraft struck the cruiser on the top of her third funnel. CMDR G.H. Gill, RANVR, reported: “Australia was the recipient of ...
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 22 April 1944
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA, SHROPSHIRE, ARUNTA, and WARRAMUNGA provided covering fire for the landing of troops from the Australian landing ships WESTRALIA, MANOORA, and KANIMBLA, at Humboldt Bay, near Hollandia in ...
Australian Naval History on 2 February 1943
HMAS MANOORA returned to service after conversion from an armed merchant cruiser to a landing ship, infantry. HMAS WHYALLA, (minesweeper), bombarded Japanese fortifications at McLaren Harbour, New Guinea. ...