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Ca. Dec. 1945. Landing Ship Infantry HMAS MANOORA [I] returns from a repatriation voyage - W.A. Shearon.
1138. After the Balikpapan landings in July 1945 HMAS MANOORA [I] was back in Sydney when WWII finally ended. She would begin an almost equally busy period of re-supply and repatriations from the islands north of Australia.
The 10,900 tons [grt] former Adelaide Steamship Company coastal liner is seen here making her way towards Walsh Bay, under the Harbour Bridge. MANOORA's very crowded wartime career was briefly sketched at pic No 584. In Dec. 1941, as an AMC, she had taken the Chief of the Naval Staff Sir Guy Royle, RN, to Singapore*, where she experienced her first air raid, the first of many, and then began convoy escort work in the Indian Ocean.
In March, 1942 she picked up a total of more than 10,000 Australian troops from the Middle East in Colombo and ferried them back to Australia, amidst the controversy referred to several entries back, under the photos of the great troopship QUEEN MARY.
In the middle of 1942 MANOORA was taken in hand at Garden Island Dockyard, and converted to a Landing Ship Infantry, and began a long period of training in Melbourne's Port Philip Bay for her new role, which woud eventually take her to all the main landings in the Southwest Pacific.
MANOORA was not returned to her owners until 1949. In August 1961, with the coastal passenger trade in Australia giving way to mass air travel, she was sold to the Indonesian Goverment for use as a pilgrim ship, plying the route to Saudi Arabia under the name ALBULOMBO. She was finally sold for scrapping in October 1972, and dismantled in Taiwan. *Some confusion regarding the Singapore conference reported above. We've since seen and reported an RAN Seapower Centre history page that states the cruiser HMAS SYDNEY [II] took Royle to Singapore for a conference, in April 1941. Perhaps there were two conferences there.
Photo: Taken by W.A. Shearon of George St, Sydney, it appears here courtesy of Jeannie, whose dAD had served on both HMAS QUICKMATCH and HMAS MANOORA [I] during WWII. The photo, and one to follow, were first posted on the World Naval Ships Forums website.
Ca. Dec. 1945. Landing Ship Infantry HMAS MANOORA [I] returns from a repatriation voyage - W.A. Shearon.
1138. After the Balikpapan landings in July 1945 HMAS MANOORA [I] was back in Sydney when WWII finally ended. She would begin an almost equally busy period of re-supply and repatriations from the islands north of Australia.
The 10,900 tons [grt] former Adelaide Steamship Company coastal liner is seen here making her way towards Walsh Bay, under the Harbour Bridge. MANOORA's very crowded wartime career was briefly sketched at pic No 584. In Dec. 1941, as an AMC, she had taken the Chief of the Naval Staff Sir Guy Royle, RN, to Singapore*, where she experienced her first air raid, the first of many, and then began convoy escort work in the Indian Ocean.
In March, 1942 she picked up a total of more than 10,000 Australian troops from the Middle East in Colombo and ferried them back to Australia, amidst the controversy referred to several entries back, under the photos of the great troopship QUEEN MARY.
In the middle of 1942 MANOORA was taken in hand at Garden Island Dockyard, and converted to a Landing Ship Infantry, and began a long period of training in Melbourne's Port Philip Bay for her new role, which woud eventually take her to all the main landings in the Southwest Pacific.
MANOORA was not returned to her owners until 1949. In August 1961, with the coastal passenger trade in Australia giving way to mass air travel, she was sold to the Indonesian Goverment for use as a pilgrim ship, plying the route to Saudi Arabia under the name ALBULOMBO. She was finally sold for scrapping in October 1972, and dismantled in Taiwan. *Some confusion regarding the Singapore conference reported above. We've since seen and reported an RAN Seapower Centre history page that states the cruiser HMAS SYDNEY [II] took Royle to Singapore for a conference, in April 1941. Perhaps there were two conferences there.
Photo: Taken by W.A. Shearon of George St, Sydney, it appears here courtesy of Jeannie, whose dAD had served on both HMAS QUICKMATCH and HMAS MANOORA [I] during WWII. The photo, and one to follow, were first posted on the World Naval Ships Forums website.