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BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS JUNEE. JUNEE WAS COMPLETED ON 26 APRIL 1944 AND SERVED IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA. IN THE POST WAR PERIOD SHE WAS STATIONED AT FREMANTLE WHERE SHE SERVED IN THE 1950S AS A SEAGOING TRAINING SHIP. IN 1962 JUNEE WAS SOLD BY PUBLIC TENDER TO A PERTH ENGINEER WHO WAS CONVERTING HER TO A FISHERIES PARENTSHIP WHEN HE DIED IN 1963. THE SHIP THEN PASSED TO A PERTH SCRAP DEALER AND AFTER BEING STRIPPED SHE WAS SCUTTLED SOME 20 MILES WEST OF ROTTNEST ISLAND ON 7 SEPTEMBER 1968. HMAS JUNEE WAS THE LAST OF HER CLASS TO BE LAUNCHED.
BAY OF BISCAY. 1943-05-29. SUNDERLAND T9114-E OF NO 461 SQUADRON RAAF, UNDER TOW BY THE FRENCH DESTROYER 'LA COMBATTANTE'. THE AIRCRAFT HAD LANDED TO PICK UP SIXTEEN SURVIVORS FROM TWO OTHER AIRCRAFT
BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS PARKES. COMPLETED ON 15TH MAY 1944 PARKES SERVED IN THE NORTHERN AUSTRALIA - NEW GUINEA AREA AND ADJACENT WATERS. AFTER THE WAR SHE SPENT SOME TIME IN NEI WATE
Starboard port quarter of the Admiralty S Class Destroyer HMAS Swordsman, one of five ships of this class presented to Australian in 1919. She served with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) until 1929 wh
STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE CSIRO FISHERIES RESEARCH VESSEL WARREEN, WHICH WAS LATER COMMISSIONED INTO THE RAN AS THE SURVEY TENDER HMAS STELLA. SHE SERVED AGAIN POST WAR AS A TRAINING VESSEL UNDER HER
BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS KALGOORLIE. COMPLETED ON 7 APRIL 1942 KALGOORLIE SPENT HER WAR SERVICE IN AUSTRALIAN, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS AREAS INCLUDING A PERIOD WITH THE BRI
BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS LATROBE. COMMISSIONED ON 6TH NOVEMBER 1942 LATROBE SPENT HER WAR SERVICE CARRYING OUT MINESWEEPING, CONVOY, PRISONER OF WAR EVACUATION AND TROOP CARRYING DUTIE
BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS BATHURST. COMPLETED ON 5TH DECEMBER 1940 BATHURST SPENT MOST OF HER WAR SERVICE WITH BRITISH FLEETS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, RED SEA, PERSIAN GULF AND INDIAN OCEA
