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Builder: Redfern Construction Ltd. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Displacement: 733 tons
Length: 186 ft
Beam: 31 ft
Draught: 8 ft 6 in
Propulsion: triple expansion engine, 2 shafts. 2,000 hp
Speed: 15 Knots
Armament: 1 12 Ponder, later1 × QF 4 inch Mk XIX gun, 3 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (later 4), 1 × Bofors 40 mm gun (installed later), 2 x.303 Vickers machine guns, 40 Depth charges (4 throwers and 2 chutes)
Crew complement: 85
Lt. James Arthur Way, RN 13 Jul 1944
A/Lt. Cdr. Charles Delphin Abbott, DSC, RNR 19 Oct 1944
Cdr. Roger William David Thomson, DSC, RN 25 Feb 1945 - mid 1946
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An Algerine class minesweeper
In October she was allocated
On release from duties in the
On January 26th 1945 s
HMS. COQUETTE was in
Notes:
1 RANR(S) = Royal Australian Navy Reserve (Seagoing)
2 RAN Bathurst Class minesweepers transferred to the Royal Netherlands NavyBURNIE - Jul 46 (HLMNS CERAM), CAIRNS - Feb 46 (HLMNS AMBON), IPSWICH - Jul 46 (HLMNS MORATAI), KALGOORLIE - Aug 46 (HLMNS TERNATE), LISMORE - Jul 46 (HLMNS BATJAN), TAMWORTH - Apr 46(HLMNS TIDORE), TOOWOOMBA – Jun 46 (HLMNS BOEROE), and WOLLONGONG – Feb 46 (HLMNS BANDA)
Last modified: 23 February 2023
EASTERN FLEET -War Diary December 1942 on-line at
www.naval-history.net accessed 2 Feb 2020
LEVANT COMMAND War Diary September to November 1943 On-line at
www.naval-history.net
accessed 30 Jan 2020
EASTERN FLEET -War Diary January to October 1945 on-line at
www.naval-history.net accessed 30 Jan 2020
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HM Ships COLOSSUS, GLORY, VENERABLE and VENGEANCE. GLORY did not arrive in Sydney until August 16th.
At the end of June 1945, the Admiralty implemented a new system of classification for carrier air wings, adopting the American practice one carrier would embark a single Carrier Air Group (CAG) which would encompass all the ships squadrons.
Sturtivant, R & Balance, T. (1994) 'Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm’ list 899 squadron as conducting DLT on the Escort Carrier ARBITER on August 15th. It is possible that the usual three-day evolution was cancelled due to the announcement of the Japanese surrender on this date and was postponed for a month.
Gordon served with the radio section of Mobile Repair UNit No.1 (MR 1) at Nowra, he was a member of the local RN dance band, and possibly the last member of MONAB I to leave Nowra after it paid off. .
In March 1946 I joined 812 squadron, aboard HMS Vengeance, spending some time ditching American aircraft north of Australia. Eventually we sailed for Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) landing at Trincomalee and setting up a radio section at Katakarunda. In the belief that we were exhausted we were sent to a rest camp at Kandy for a few weeks. We moved down to Colombo to pick up Vengeance and returned to Portsmouth via the Suez Canal . I was discharged in November 1946.
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