AT 1200 ON 29TH NOVEMBER 1942, HMAS Armidale, in company with HMAS Castlemaine, left Darwin for Betano on the south coast of Timor. Our mission was to land Netherlands East ...
HMAS Armidale I
Australian Naval History on 19 December 1942
HMAS KALGOORLIE, (minesweeper), picked up 29 survivors from HMAS ARMIDALE’s whaler, 150 miles north-west of Darwin. ARMIDALE was sunk by Japanese bombers off Timor. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 December 1942
HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), with HM Ships ARGONAUT, AURORA, SINUS, and QUENTIN, sank the Italian destroyer FOLGORE, and four merchant ships, in a point-blank night attack off Skerki Bank, North Africa. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 December 1942
The minesweeper HMAS ARMIDALE, (LCDR D. H. Richards, RAN), was sunk by 12 Japanese bombers, 70 miles south of Betano Bay, Timor. ARMIDALE was involved in the re-supply of Australian ...
Australian Naval History on 30 November 1942
RAAF Beaufighters of No. 31 Squadron, drove off 14 Japanese fighters and bombers which were attacking HMA Ships CASTLEMAINE and ARMIDALE, (minesweepers), in the Arafura Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 June 1942
The Bathurst class minesweeper, (corvette), HMAS ARMIDALE, (LCDR D. H. Richards, RANR(S)), was commissioned. ARMIDALE was laid down in Mort’s Dock, Balmain, Sydney, on 1 September 1941, and launched on ...
Australian Naval History on 17 February 1942
Waves of Japanese aircraft bombed a convoy escorted by HMA Ships SWAN, WARREGO, VOYAGER, ARMIDALE, and CASTLEMAINE, in the Timor Sea. Despite the concerted attack the convoy reached Koepang, (Dutch ...
Australian Naval History on 23 January 1942
HMAS ARMIDALE was launched at Mort’s Dock, Sydney. ADML Royle informed the Australian War Cabinet that an invasion of Australia by the Japanese was a distinct possibility. ...