The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Lieutenant Charles Donald Hearder-Friend (Navigator) of the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Orara, takes a bearing while his ship is in the process of sweeping through an enemy minefield laid in the Bass Strait area.
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
The Oreposa float being hauled aboard the Auxiliary Minesweeper, HMAS Orara, after a minesweeping operation off Wilsons Promontory in the Bass Strait area.
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 Str
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 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
On the bridge of the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Orara, the Navigator (at right in cap) plots a course to the next area for conducting a minesweeping operation in the Bass Strait area.
