The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Crewmen of the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Orara using a Lee-Enfield .303 rifle (left) and twin machine guns to destroy and sink one of two German mines swept up off Wilson's Promontory in the Bass Strait area in a joint minesweeping operation with the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Durraween.
The view from the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Orara of a German mine swept up off Wilson's Promontory in the Bass Strait area in a joint operation with the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Durraween (seen in
An official photographer on board the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Orara takes photographs of one of two German mines swept up off Wilson's Promontory in the Bass Strait area in ajoint operation with th
An official cinematographer on board the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Orara films a German mine on his Bell and Howell Eyemo 35mm cine camera. This was of one of two German mines swept up off Wilson's P
The Oreposa float being hauled aboard the Auxiliary Minesweeper, HMAS Orara, after a minesweeping operation off Wilsons Promontory in the Bass Strait area.
Enemy mines that are swept away from their moorings by minesweepers float on the surface until they are destroyed by gunfire. Here an officer and four sailors of the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Orara a
Filmed on board HMAS Orara, an auxiliary minesweeper working in the Bass Strait, Wilson's Promontory area, in company with HMAS Swan and HMAS Warrego. The Orara is operating an Oropeas or O sweep.
