The 16th MCM Squadron with 6 Bird class minesweepers deploy as part of Operation GARDENING, a minesweeping task to clear a channel into Tonolei Harbour in Bougainville, where US aircraft had ...
HMAS Gull
Australian Naval History on 7 December 1962
The newly formed 16th MCM Squadron arrived in Australia with the six Bird class minesweepers. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 July 1962
The Bird, (ex-RN Ton), class minesweeper HMAS GULL, (LEUT A. L. Beaumont, RAN), was commissioned. GULL, (as HMS SWANSTON), was laid down in J. S. Doig Ltd, Grimsby, England, in ...