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Feb. 22, 1946: Corvette HMAS Gawler on a mill pond morning off Williamstown - Allan C. Green [1878-1954] SLV.
2785. Another of the 56 Bathurst Class corvettes operated by the RAN during WWII, HMAS Gawler is also seen here on her way to foreign ownership.
The corvette, a veteran of WWII campaigns in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and Pacific, was sold to Turkey in August 1946, and renamed Antalya. She served the Turkish Navy until 1963, when she was withdrawn.
During WWII HMAS Gawler and her crew had also been involved in relief work after the massive explosions of the Lend Lease munitions ship S.S. Fort Stickine at Bombay [now Mumbai] on April 14, 1944.
Having sailed from Birkenhead laden with general cargo, Spitfire aircraft, munitions, and 1,400 tons of explosives, the 7142 ton ship experienced a fire in a hold when berthed at Bombay. Subsequently two immense explosions flattened large areas of the Bombay Docks, sank 11 surrounding ships and killed more than 800 people, with many more injured.
While Gawler was one of the ships involved in initial relief work, in fact it took seven months to clear half a million tons of debris from the Bombay Docks area.
Photo: Allan C. Green [1878-1954] Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library]. Copyright expired and this usuage allowed. The photograph appears small [and mis-dated] in John Bastock's limited edition book 'Australia's Ships Of War' [Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1975] p176.
Feb. 22, 1946: Corvette HMAS Gawler on a mill pond morning off Williamstown - Allan C. Green [1878-1954] SLV.
2785. Another of the 56 Bathurst Class corvettes operated by the RAN during WWII, HMAS Gawler is also seen here on her way to foreign ownership.
The corvette, a veteran of WWII campaigns in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and Pacific, was sold to Turkey in August 1946, and renamed Antalya. She served the Turkish Navy until 1963, when she was withdrawn.
During WWII HMAS Gawler and her crew had also been involved in relief work after the massive explosions of the Lend Lease munitions ship S.S. Fort Stickine at Bombay [now Mumbai] on April 14, 1944.
Having sailed from Birkenhead laden with general cargo, Spitfire aircraft, munitions, and 1,400 tons of explosives, the 7142 ton ship experienced a fire in a hold when berthed at Bombay. Subsequently two immense explosions flattened large areas of the Bombay Docks, sank 11 surrounding ships and killed more than 800 people, with many more injured.
While Gawler was one of the ships involved in initial relief work, in fact it took seven months to clear half a million tons of debris from the Bombay Docks area.
Photo: Allan C. Green [1878-1954] Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library]. Copyright expired and this usuage allowed. The photograph appears small [and mis-dated] in John Bastock's limited edition book 'Australia's Ships Of War' [Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1975] p176.