The auxiliary minesweeper HMAS BIRCHGROVE PARK, was commissioned. BIRCHGROVE PARK was laid down in 1930. She was requisitioned for the RAN, from her owners, R. W. Miller & Co Pty Ltd, on 9 May 1941.

HMAS STUART, (destroyer), left the Mediterranean. With the departure of STUART, the famous 10th Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet ceased to exist. The 10th was Australia’s ‘Scrap Iron Flotilla’.