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HMAS Bendigo I

The Role of the RAN in the Liberation of the Philippines

Royle, Guy, Admiral · Mar 30, 2001 ·

An address by RADM Guy Griffiths, AO, DSO, DSC, RAN Retd at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne (Oct 2000) Together with the widely dispersed set-backs in late 1941 – early ...

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HMAS Bendigo – A RAN Corvette in Singapore – February 1942

Bower, Laurie · Dec 5, 1996 ·

I have been asked to write something about the draft which went from Sydney to Singapore in January 1942 in the S.S. Aquitania. I had just been drafted from HMAS ...

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Corvette Maryborough 1941-1946

Harvey K · Jun 23, 1980 ·

HMAS MARYBOROUGH was built by Walker’s Ltd at Maryborough, Queensland and commissioned by Lieutenant Commander G. L. Cant, RAN on 15th June, 1941. Known as the Bathurst class of mine-sweepers, ...

HMAS Bendigo – New Guinea 1942

Richardson, G · Jun 30, 1975 ·

In our last issue we featured the first year in the career of HMAS Bendigo. The corvette’s multifarious duties earned the title of ‘Maid of all Tasks’. Between June and ...

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HMAS Bendigo 1941 – 42

Richardson, G · Mar 31, 1975 ·

Diaries in any form were disallowed in HMA Ships during World War II but fortunately for history some were kept and many survived. One such diary was kept by C ...

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Australian Naval History on 27 September 1946

On This Day · Sep 27, 1946 ·

HMAS Ballarat paid off into Reserve at Sydney and was sold to a Hong Kong shipping company, China Traders Ltd, on 10 July 1947. Ballarat (I) did not leave Australian ...

Australian Naval History on 16 November 1945

David Stratton · Nov 16, 1945 ·

The 21st Minesweeping Flotilla consisting of HMA ships Ballarat, Bathurst, Burnie, Maryborough, Cairns, Fremantle, Bendigo, Toowoomba and Goulburn left Hong Kong after sweeping in Chinese waters and proceeded to Australia. ...

Australian Naval History on 1 December 1944

On This Day · Dec 1, 1944 ·

The 21st and 22nd Minesweeping Flotillas, HMA Ships BURNIE, BALLARAT, MARYBOROUGH, LISMORE, WHYALLA, GOULBURN, KALGOORLIE, TOOWOOMBA, and BENDIGO, and HMA Ships GAWLER, GERALDTON, CESSNOCK, CAIRNS, IPSWICH, TAMWORTH, WOLLONGONG, PINE, and ...

Australian Naval History on 17 June 1943

On This Day · Jun 17, 1943 ·

HMA Ships GAWLER and LISMORE, (minesweepers) and two motor minesweepers, picked up 1353 survivors from the troop ship YOMA, sunk by a German submarine off Derna, Libya. Operation Lilliput ended. ...

Australian Naval History on 28 April 1942

On This Day · Apr 28, 1942 ·

HMAS BENDIGO, (minesweeper), picked up 50 survivors from the Dutch merchant vessel DUPLIEX, sunk off Java Head. The patrol vessel HMAS LAURABADA, (LEUT Ivan Champion, RANVR), evacuated the last troops ...

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