HMAS MILDURA - What's New on the Web Site

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 This site was last updated on August 26, 2006 .

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New Items include:

August 2006:

• Recollections of Reserve Stoker Don Edwards
• Crew lists updated with more names

October 2005:

• added the final two verses of Jingle Bells

May 2005

• Added new information for all corvettes
• Fire in Fremantle Harbour
• Lt.Cdr. John Ferguson DSC details and photo.
• Added photos of every corvette
• Repaired links
• Added small maps to some stories
• New story about the Chief ERA
• Badges from the HMAS MILDURA Collection

December

• HMAS CASTLEMAINE page added to include many of the photos from TENIX
• Today in History added to front page
• New Forum page through Bravenet
• Lots of minor adjustments
• New Guestbook - the new Alxnet service was to hard to edit and remove offensive material. Have moved to Bravenet. Please leave a message!

August :

• New photos
• Repaired links

May 6:

• New Photos (AWM)

May 3:

• New photos courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
• New links for corvettes to the RAN Official Ship History.

May 1:

• Improved page headings
• Games Page
• Crossword Puzzle
• The Prefix Game

April 21:

Updated a few links

January 4:

• MILDURA and Australia's First Ship

July 8:

• Storm at Sea
• How Do You Do?
• Ship's Balls
• Christmas
• The San Miguel Brewery
• Plumbing
• The Beginning
• Iron Knight
• Mines
• Search for a Catalina
• Halistosis on the High Seas
• Quick Draw
• Other Games
• The Captain's Congratulations
• Missing the Train
• What The Stokers Did
• Search for a DC-3

July 5:

• Task Force 6814
• Crew Photo Gallery
• Ships Log: January 1942-April 1942

June 21:

• Static Training Ship
• The Refit

June 7:

Stories and pages reorganized into more logical groupings

June 6:

• Ship's log December 1941

• Ship's log November 1941

• Mine Sweeping Dangers

• The Ship's Bell

• Navigation

• Rewrite "Towing the Burnett"

• The Wharfie's Barrow
• Return to the West
• Spell Horse
• Mother's Day
• Puss in Boats
• Brisbane River Days
• Water Sports
• Clothes
• When Do We Go To Sea
  
• Names added to more photos
• Over 20 new photos added.

May 24:

• Mail

• Rewrite Hong Kong stories

• The Official Hong Kong Communique

• Charlie

• New links

• New photos - Bomb tests, HMS MILDURA

April 25:

• Oysters and Fish

• Many new photos including

• the sinking of the WARRNAMBOOL
• towing the Burnett
• on board photos from HMAS CASTLEMAINE

March 21:

• Maps for Ship's Log added

March 13:

• Website moved to Vicnet

• Front Page redesigned

March 8

• Ships Log Book Page

• Ship's Log Book for July-September 1941

Febuary 11

• Hygiene
• The FORUM Page
• Join the Mailing List

December 16:

• The Captain's Rounds
• Printer "friendly" crew list
• Food

November 22:

• New Crew Page
• East Coast Convoys
• Towing the "PETER H. BURNETT"
• First to Re-enter Hong Kong - Snowy Moore's story
• Reorganizing the Hong Kong stories onto a single page

August 22: Painting the Ship

July 17: Updated links

July 6:

• Sick Bay Attendant - Allan Prentice's story
• IRON KNIGHT- A Survivor's Story
• HMS MAIDSTONE
• Sinking of HMAS WARRNAMBOOL
• Mutiny on the HMAS MILDURA
• The Commanding Officers
• Captain of the Heads

May 20:

• Run Aground in Noumea

April 13

• Gavins's Car
• What Do You Take To A War ?
• Fixed lots of broken links (sorry!)

April 6

• Fishing
• More details about the Anson crash

April 2

• Photos of launching
• Collision with the BERWICKSHIRE
• More details and some more photos including the ships's official launching

March 27

• Details of HMAS's

  • TAMWORTH
  • TOOWOOMBA
  • TOWNSVILLE
  • WAGGA
  • WALLAROO
  • WARRNAMBOOL
  • WHYALLA
  • WOLLONGONG
• A Ships Concert Programme
• A Song from HMAS IPSWICH

March 26

• Details of HMASs

  • SHEPPARTON
• STAWELL
• STRAHAN

March 10:

• Details of HMAS's

  • MARYBOROUGH
  • MILDURA
  • PARKES
  • PIRIE
  • ROCKHAMPTON

March 3:

• Details of HMASs
  • LATROBE
  • LAUNCESTON
  • LISMORE
• More photos
• Letter from Hong Kong

February: This site moved to the Yahoo Geocities server. Pages were reformatted and HTML coding tidied up. It should load faster and look better.

February 28: Manila war photos

February 23:

• Details of HMASs

  • GYMPIE
  • HORSHAM
  • INVERELL
  • IPSWICH
  • JUNEE
  • KAPUNDA
  • KATOOMBA
  • KIAMA
• More photos

February 22:

• Details of HMASs

  • Geraldton
  • Gladstone
  • Glenelg
  • Goulburn

January 18

• Mildura's Last Days
• 14 names added to crew list
• Details of Mrs.J.Durnford
• Where's Subic Bay?
• Western Australian Days
• Trouble in Tasmania

October 18:

• Details on HMAS's
  • Fremantle
  • Gawler
  • Geelong
  • Kalgoorlie
  • Lithgow

October 2:

• Rewrite of First Ship into Hong Kong
• Rewrite of Mildura Captures a Brewery
• More links

September 22:

• Details on corvettes HMAS's
  • BURNIE
  • CAIRNS
  • CASTLEMAINE
  • CESSNOCK
  • COLAC
  • COOTAMUNDRA
  • COWRA
  • DELORAINE
  • DUBBO
  • ECHUCA
• Sick Berth Attendant - Ken Green

September 14:

• Report of Torpedo Attack
• The Barber - rewritten
• Mildura First Into Hong Kong
• Mildura Captures a Brewery
• Gaoled for Two Bottles of Beer
• Mildura's Last Cruise
• More photos
• More Links
• Guest book
• Search facility

September 7 :

• Updated crew list
• Corvette List
• Details on corvettes HMAS's
  • Ararat
  • Armidale
  • Ballarat
  • Bathurst
  • Benalla
  • Bendigo
  • Bowen
  • Broome
  • Bunbury
  • Bundaberg
• Aerial Maintenance
• The Avro Anson Incident
• Japanese Submarine 1-21
• Mildura and the Atomic Bomb
• More Links

© HMAS MILDURA ASSOCIATION Victoria Australia August 26, 2006