Territory Stories
HMAS Tolga (FY00)
Details:
Title
HMAS Tolga (FY00),
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
Water carrier,
Stores Carrier
Auxiliary Minesweeper,
Unit
HMAS Tolga (FY00),
Parent unit
Adelaide Steamship Company,
Date arrived in NT
1941-06-04,
Date left the NT
1943,
Honours and awards
Battle Honour, Darwin 1942-1943,
History
Requisitioned on 1 November 1940 and was commissioned as an auxiliary minesweeper on 30 December 1940. She served with the Minesweeping Group 70 based in Darwin and was carrying out water-carrier duties when the Japanese bombed the harbour on 19 February 1942. She worked with Terka assisting those vessels that had been hit.,
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,
Auxiliary minesweeper,
Stores carrier,
Water carrier,
HMAS Tolga (FY00),
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/C233948 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 301582, Naval Historical Collection] ,
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/TIGRE_TO_TP_245.pdf [Tolga HMAS (FY00)],
http://www.flotilla-australia.com/adsteam.htm [Flotilla Australia - Adelaide Steamship Company],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=31283 [HMAS Tolga (FY00)],
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843586 ,
Citation address
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843586
Related items
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844012 ,
Territory Stories
HMAS Tolga (FY00)
Details:
Title
HMAS Tolga (FY00),
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
Water carrier,
Stores Carrier
Auxiliary Minesweeper,
Unit
HMAS Tolga (FY00),
Parent unit
Adelaide Steamship Company,
Date arrived in NT
1941-06-04,
Date left the NT
1943,
Honours and awards
Battle Honour, Darwin 1942-1943,
History
Requisitioned on 1 November 1940 and was commissioned as an auxiliary minesweeper on 30 December 1940. She served with the Minesweeping Group 70 based in Darwin and was carrying out water-carrier duties when the Japanese bombed the harbour on 19 February 1942. She worked with Terka assisting those vessels that had been hit.,
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,
Auxiliary minesweeper,
Stores carrier,
Water carrier,
HMAS Tolga (FY00),
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/C233948 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 301582, Naval Historical Collection] ,
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/TIGRE_TO_TP_245.pdf [Tolga HMAS (FY00)],
http://www.flotilla-australia.com/adsteam.htm [Flotilla Australia - Adelaide Steamship Company],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=31283 [HMAS Tolga (FY00)],
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843586 ,
Citation address
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843586
Related items
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844012 ,