The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 are using Lee-Enfield .303 rifles to destroy a mine.
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
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
Although only tiny ships that are principally used to sweep for mines, minesweepers of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) are all armed for self protection against any enemy submarines or raiders that ma
Although only tiny ships that are principally used to sweep for mines, minesweepers of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) are all armed for self protection against any enemy submarines or raiders that ma
Although only tiny ships that are principally used to sweep for mines, minesweepers of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) are all armed for self protection against any enemy submarines or raiders that ma
Although only tiny ships that are principally used to sweep for mines, minesweepers of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) are all armed for self protection against any enemy submarines or raiders that ma