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HMAS River Snake (AS1801)

Details:

Title

HMAS River Snake (AS1801),

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Merchant Navy,

Service branch

Snake Class Junk,

Unit

HMAS River Snake (AS1801),

Parent unit

Services Reconnaisance Department (SRD),

Date arrived in NT

1945-07-11,

History

River Snake was a Service Reconnaisance Department vessel commissioned on 19 February 1945. On 11 July 1945 she was taken in tow by HMAS Inverall on its way to Morotai.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, Australia, Junk, HMAS River Snake (AS1801),

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C232323 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 301280, Naval Historical Collection], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake-class_junk [Snake Class Junk], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=32310 [HMAS River Snake (AS1801)],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843572,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843572

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844005,