|
|
|
Back to Links Page
|
Back to Home Page
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Evans Deakin, Brisbane, Queensland
- Laid down 4 November 1940
- Launched 13 May 1941 by Mrs.P.E.McNeil, wife of the Third Member of the
Naval Board
- Commissioned December 19, 1941.
Served on East Coast convoys 1942/3. With the MILDURA when the IRON KNIGHT
was torpedoed off Montague Island, the torpedo passing under the shallow
draught of the corvette before hitting the merchant ship. Served in New
Guinea 1944/5. Cleared mines post war in New Guinea, Solomons, Torres
Strait and Great Barrier Reef. Sold to Hong Kong Delta Shipping Co as
scrap in 1956.
|
|
|
|
Named after Townsville,
Queensland
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Morts Dock, Sydney, NSW
- Laid down 9 March 1942
- Launched 25 July 1942
by Mrs H.E. Gissing, Mayoress of Wagga
- Commissioned 18 December 1942
under the command of Lieutenant Donald K. Cracknell RANR(S).
Damaged by bombing in Milne Bay. In May 1944 she bombarded Uligan Harbour,
Neptune Point and Bunabun Harbour. Entered Hong Kong behind the Mildura
in 1945. Served as a training ship after the war, before being broken
up for scrap in Sydney in 1962.
|
|
|
|
Named after Wagga
Wagga, NSW
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Poole and Steele, Sydney, NSW
- Laid down 27 August 1941
- Launched 23 June 1942 by Mrs.A.H.Poole, wife of chairman Poole and Steele.
- Commissioned 15 July 1942
under the command of Lieutenant Eric S. Ross RANR(S).
Served as a West Coast escort. Hit by US liberty ship "HENRY GILBERT
COSTIN" and sunk off Rottnest Island during the night of June 10, 1943. Three
crew lost. Survivors rescued by the DUBBO.
|
|
|
|
Named after Wallaroo, South
Australia
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Morts Dock, Sydney, NSW
- Laid down 13 November 1940
- Launched 8 April 1941 by Mrs.E.T.Simpson, wife of director of Morts Dock.
- Commissioned 23 September 1941
Based in Darwin in 1942, she rescued survivors from the SS DON ISIDRO
off Bathurst Island. Landed and later evacuated Dutch troops on East
Timor.
Rescued survivors from HMAS VOYAGER in Betano Bay. In 1943 she rescued
survivors from the Liberty ship "LYDIA M CHILDS" off Newcastle.
On 19 September 1947 she struck a mine and sank during mine-sweeping at Cockburn
Reef, North Queensland. Four crew killed, twenty-nine injured. Wreck
sold to Southern Cross Diving and Salvage in 1972.
|
|
|
|
Named after Warrnambool,
Victoria
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by BHP, Whyalla, South Australia
- Laid down 24 July 1940
- Launched 12 May 1941 by Lady Barolay-Harvey, wife of the Governor of South Australia.
- Commissioned 8 January 1942.
Served on East coast convoys. Was in Sydney Harbour during the midget
submarine attack in 1942. Surveyed passage from Milne Bay to Oro Bay.
Bombed while surveying McLaren Harbour, two crew injured, and near misses
caused charts to be washed overboard. Defended shipping during air raids
on Milne Bay. Joined British Pacific Fleet in 1944, serving in Hong Kong.
Put in reserve in Brisbane, she towed to Melbourne in 1947 and as the "RIP" served as maintenance vessel for the Victorian Port Authority.
In 1984 she was bought by the Whyalla City Council and in 1988 opened
as maritime museum in Whyalla, South Australia.
|
|
|
|
Named after Whyalla,
South Australia
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Cockatoo Island Dockyard, NSW
- Laid down 29 January 1941
- Launched 5 July 1941 by Mrs.J.A.Beasley, wife of the Minister of Supply.
- Commissioned 23 October 1941
Served in Singapore. Rescued troops from the EMPRESS OF ASIA in February
1942. Escorted last convoy from Java, narrowly escaping Japanese naval
and air patrols. Joined British Eastern Fleet in September 1942. Later
served in Mediterranean and Sicily invasions, even venturing into the
Atlantic. Joined British Pacific Fleet in 1944 and later served in Hong
Kong. Sold to Dutch Navy in 1946 as "BANDA" and then in April
1950 in the Indonesian Navy as "RADJAWALI". Scrapped in Hong
Kong in 1968.
|
|
|
|
Named after Wollongong,
NSW
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Cockatoo Island, NSW
- Laid down 3 December 1941
- Launched 7 July 1942
by Elsie Curtin, wife of the Prime Minister.
- Commissioned 8 August 1942
November 1942 she attacked two heavily armed Japanese merchant cruisers
and eventually sunk one, the HOKOKU MARU, despite receiving several hits
herself. Both the BENGAL and the tanker she was escorting, ONDINA, were
able to escape. Decommisioned in 1960.
|
|
|
|
Named after Bengal,
India
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Morts Dock, Sydney, NSW
- Laid down 19 July 1941
- Launched 6 December 1941
- Commissioned 24 April 1942
Left Australia for Colombo September 1942. Decommissioned in 1960.
|
|
|
|
Named after Bombay,
India
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Cockatoo Island, NSW
- Laid down 4 August 1941
- Launched 17 February 1942
- Commissioned 12 May 1942
- Decommisioned 1960
Left for Colombo July, 1942.
|
|
|
|
Named after Madras,
India
|
|
|
|
|
- Built
by Morts Dock, Sydney, NSW
- Laid down 26 May 1941
- Launched 10 October 1941
- Commissioned 20 March 1942
- Decommisioned 1949
Arrived in Bombay, July 1942.
Crewed by sailors of the Royal Indian Navy. The Naval Engineering Museum at INS Shivaji has the boiler from the HMIS Punjab as one of its exhibits.
|
Boiler from the HMIS PUNJAB |
|
|
Named after Punjab,
India
|
|
Back to Links Page
|
Back to Home Page
|
|
© HMAS
MILDURA ASSOCIATION Victoria Australia
March 16, 2007
|
