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Oct. 1944: WWII Naval Auxiliary Patrol [NAP] boat BETTY TOO, Brisbane - AWM.
2598. In Brisbane, the NAP organisation took over patrol of the Brisbane River from the Royal Australian Navy Reserve on December 1941. The logistical purposes the river was divided into 10 patrol sections.12,
Peter Dunn's Australia@War website cites the number 4 patrol area as one example. It ran from the Colonial Oil Refinery to Breakfast Creek and covered the wharves at New Farm, Dalgety's Mercantile, Shell and Newstead wharves.
A list of the 87 NAP vessels formally commissioned into the RAN follows with the next photo.
Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, Image NO. 300407. Copyright expired, public domain. The photo appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945' [Doubleday, Sydney 1983] p197.
Oct. 1944: WWII Naval Auxiliary Patrol [NAP] boat BETTY TOO, Brisbane - AWM.
2598. In Brisbane, the NAP organisation took over patrol of the Brisbane River from the Royal Australian Navy Reserve on December 1941. The logistical purposes the river was divided into 10 patrol sections.12,
Peter Dunn's Australia@War website cites the number 4 patrol area as one example. It ran from the Colonial Oil Refinery to Breakfast Creek and covered the wharves at New Farm, Dalgety's Mercantile, Shell and Newstead wharves.
A list of the 87 NAP vessels formally commissioned into the RAN follows with the next photo.
Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, Image NO. 300407. Copyright expired, public domain. The photo appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945' [Doubleday, Sydney 1983] p197.