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THE
SHIP'S LOG 1941
July
1941
- July 23: Ship commissioned at 0900 along
side Oil Wharf, Garden
Island
- July 24-30: Loading of stores, ammunition
and fuel
- July 31: Degaussing trials off Shark
Island, Sydney Harbour.
August
1941
August 1941
- August 1: Minesweeping trials carried out
off Sydney Heads
- August 2-4: Along side Garden
Island
- August 5: Compass adjustment
- August 6: Left Sydney at 0830, arrived
Jervis
Bay at 1830.
- August 7: Action station exercises
- August 8: Sailed for Westernport at 1945
- August 9: On passage to Westernport. Owing
to excessive motion and pounding of ship at higher speeds, revs kept
to 9 knots.
- August 10: Passed Wilson's
Promontory at 1015 and anchored off Stony Point Pier, Westernport
at 1930.
- August 11: Off Stony Point Pier, Force
8 winds caused loss of shore communication and ship had to be steered
at anchor.
- August 12: Winds decrease, shore communication
resumed.
- August 13: Sailed for Williamstown at 0900
and arrived at 1730. Oil fuel tank required repair.
- August 14-17: Repairs at Williamstown
- August 18-22: Carried out exercises in
Port Phillip Bay, including single and double oropesa sweeps, day
and night action stations and laying and picking up dan buoys. Anchored
off Portarlington at night. Secured at Princes Pier, Port Melbourne
at 1430 on August 22.
- August 23-24: Princes Pier, Port Melbourne
- August 25: Practiced double oropesa sweeps
- August 26: Day and night full calibre firing
- August 27: Left Princes Pier at 0900. Exercised
"A" sweep with HMAS KOROWA. Secured at Nelson Pier, Williamstown
at 1600.
- August 28: Refueled and provisioned, set
sail at 2100 to join 20th Mine Sweeping Flotilla.
- August 29: Joined WARREGO,
SWAN,
DOOMBA and ORARA
in Waterloo Bay at 1045.
- August 30-31: Sailed at 0415 with 20th
Minesweeping Flotilla, carried out minesweeping Bass Strait from East
to West.
September
1941
September 1941
- September
1: Searching Western part of Bass Strait.
- September
2: On completion of search, returned to Nelson Pier, Williamstown
at 2100
- September
3-10: At Melbourne, refueling, full calibre firing and boiler cleaning.
- September
11-14: Sailed at 0630 for Bass Strait with WARREGO
and SWAN, sweeping from West to East.
- September
15:Searching between Gabo
Island and Green
Cape. Anchored in Twofold Bay at 1700
- September
16-18: Searching sweeps off NSW coast and anchoring at night in Twofold
Bay, Bateman's Bay and Jervis Bay.
- September
19: HMAS LITHGOW joined the
flotilla. Searching off Jervis
Bay. Left for Sydney at 2200.
- September
20-23: Arrived Port Jackson at 0820.
- September
24: Sailed at 1400 with WARREGO,
LITHGOW and SWAN. Anchored in
Broken Bay 1700
- September
25: Sweeping off Broken
Bay.
- September
26: Anti-aircraft practice firing
- September
27: Sweeping between Broken
Bay and Norah
Head.
- September
28: Weather too rough to sweep.
- September
29: Left flotilla to land 6 ratings with mumps in Sydney. Returned
to Broken Bay at 1845
- September
30: Sweeping off Norah
Head.
October
1941
Port Arthur, Convict Prison, Tasmania
- October
14: Swept approach channel to Hobart. Secured at Princes Wharf, Hobart,
at 1535.
- October
15-17: At Hobart for boiler cleaning.
- October
18: Anti submarine patrol on approaches to Hobart for protection of
HMT QUEEN
MARY
- October
19-22: A/S patrol
- October
23: A/S escort for HMT
QUEEN MARY as far as Cape
Raoul, returned to Port
Arthur.
- October
24: Sweeping Hobart approach channel, anchoring at Snug.
- October
25: A/S escort for HMT
QUEEN ELIZABETH between Cape
Raoul and Iron
Pot. Returned to Ocean Wharf, Hobart to refuel.
- October
26: At Hobart
- October
27: Sweeping off Iron
Pot.
- October
28-31: Flotilla departed, MILDURA remaining as A/S protection for
Port of Hobart.
Minesweeping off Hobart, October 1941
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December 28, 2004
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