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Mar. 31, 1944: New ML1322 at Colmslie Naval Base, Brisbane, en route to the Islands - JOL, Qld.
716. Public records of the many inshore exploits of the Fairmile B and HDMLs around New Guinea tend to be scant. But we know ML 1322 went north, because she was one of the vessels present at the Japanese surrender at Koepang, Timor, ferrying the Japanese negotiators between the shore and the surrender ceremony ship HMAS Moresby as we recall.
ML1322 was built by Purdon and Featherstone in Hobart. She was wrecked in Sydney Harbour on Aug. 5, 1952, under circumstances we've not found mentioned [later, working from memory, we think she was washed onto rocks by a severe storm on that date - the same storm perhaps that beached the Dutch submarine being towed from its exhiobitikon site at Manly pier, dealt with in a later Entry].
The John Oxley Library description says this:
Australian Naval ship commissioned March 1944 in Hobart, Tasmania. Length 80 feet, beam 12 feet, draught 5 feet 6 inches. Carried 2 officers and 9 Ships Co. Armament 1 x 3 pdr on forecastle, 1 orlikon Quarter Section, 2 twin gas operated Vickers on each wing of the bridge, 8 depth charges. Commanding Officer Lt. E. Trickett R.A.N.R., First Lt. - Sub Lt. C. Wilkinson R.A.N.V.R.
JOL Identifier: Negative number: 46633
Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial No 69563. Copyright expired - public domain. Also John Oxley Library, Qld, neg. NO. 46633. A cropped version appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945 [Doubleday, Sydney 1983] p183.
Mar. 31, 1944: New ML1322 at Colmslie Naval Base, Brisbane, en route to the Islands - JOL, Qld.
716. Public records of the many inshore exploits of the Fairmile B and HDMLs around New Guinea tend to be scant. But we know ML 1322 went north, because she was one of the vessels present at the Japanese surrender at Koepang, Timor, ferrying the Japanese negotiators between the shore and the surrender ceremony ship HMAS Moresby as we recall.
ML1322 was built by Purdon and Featherstone in Hobart. She was wrecked in Sydney Harbour on Aug. 5, 1952, under circumstances we've not found mentioned [later, working from memory, we think she was washed onto rocks by a severe storm on that date - the same storm perhaps that beached the Dutch submarine being towed from its exhiobitikon site at Manly pier, dealt with in a later Entry].
The John Oxley Library description says this:
Australian Naval ship commissioned March 1944 in Hobart, Tasmania. Length 80 feet, beam 12 feet, draught 5 feet 6 inches. Carried 2 officers and 9 Ships Co. Armament 1 x 3 pdr on forecastle, 1 orlikon Quarter Section, 2 twin gas operated Vickers on each wing of the bridge, 8 depth charges. Commanding Officer Lt. E. Trickett R.A.N.R., First Lt. - Sub Lt. C. Wilkinson R.A.N.V.R.
JOL Identifier: Negative number: 46633
Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial No 69563. Copyright expired - public domain. Also John Oxley Library, Qld, neg. NO. 46633. A cropped version appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945 [Doubleday, Sydney 1983] p183.