An address by RADM Guy Griffiths, AO, DSO, DSC, RAN Retd at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne (Oct 2000) Together with the widely dispersed set-backs in late 1941 – early ...
HMAS Colac
HMAS Dubbo – Past and Present
RAN Minesweepers and Minehunters
Australian Naval History on 4 March 1987
HMAS OVENS, (Oberon class submarine), sank the stripped hulk of the navy tank cleaning vessel, ex-HMAS COLAC, off Sydney, with a Mk.48 torpedo. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1983
Former HMAS Colac ceased service as a tank cleaning vessel. After nine years in Reserve, Colac had been taken in hand in 1962 for conversion to a tank cleaning vessel. ...
HMAS Bendigo – New Guinea 1942
HMAS Bendigo 1941 – 42
Australian Naval History on 3 June 1945
HMAS COLAC, (minesweeper), was towed to Finschhafen, New Guinea, after suffering damage from Japanese shore batteries at Bougainville. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 May 1945
HMAS SWAN, (sloop), entered Boram Harbour, New Guinea, and carried out a bombardment of the Japanese occupied villages of Banahiton and Passam. HMAS COLAC, (minesweeper), destroyed a Japanese gun position ...
Australian Naval History on 25 May 1945
HMAS COLAC, (minesweeper), bombarded Japanese positions in Choiseul Bay, New Britain. ...