HMS SCORPION, (gunboat), was sunk south of Singapore. Among her crew who were killed was AB Daniel Ingram of the RAN. Ingram had been serving in HMAS BENDIGO when he ...
HMAS Toowoomba I
Australian Naval History on 7 February 1942
HMAS WARRAMUNGA, (Tribal class destroyer), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. HMAS TOOWOOMBA, (minesweeper), picked up survivors from the merchant ship BRITISH AIRMAN, marooned on an uninhabited island near Sumatra. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 February 1942
HMAS TOOWOOMBA, rescued the crew of the bombed merchant vessel LOCH RANZA in the Rhio Strait, Malaya. The United States Navy transferred its submarine base from Darwin to Fremantle. The ...
Australian Naval History on 9 October 1941
The Bathurst class minesweeper, (corvette), HMAS TOOWOOMBA, (LCDR P. H. Hurst, RAN), was commissioned. TOOWOOMBA was laid down in Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, QLD, on 6 August 1940, and launched on ...
Australian Naval History on 26 March 1941
The Australian trawler MILLIMUMU sank after striking a German mine on the south coast of NSW. HMAS TOOWOOMBA, (minesweeper), was launched at Walker’s Yard, QLD. The vessel was transferred in ...