Territory Stories
HMAS Yampi Lass
Details:
Title
HMAS Yampi Lass,
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
Stores lighter,
Unit
HMAS Yampi Lass,
Parent unit
Swan Brewery Company,
Date arrived in NT
1942-01-23,
Date left the NT
1943-04-11,
History
Requisitioned on 23 January 1942 by the Royal Australian Navy butwas never commissioned. Built as a scow she first saw service with the Swan Brewery Company and later sold to the Yampi Sound Mining Company which transported iron ore from the port of Koolan Island off the West Australian coast to Derby. She was blown ashore in a storm on 11 April 1943 without casualties and was assessed as irrepairable and later salvaged in October 1945 and sold for £15/10/-.,
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|Stores lighter,
HMAS Yampi Lass,
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/C10919 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 027343 by William Charles Sanders, Second World War, 1939-1945] ,
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/WT70_TO_ZVIR.pdf [Yampi Lass p.96],
https://apps5a.ris.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/wreck.do?key=3592 [Shipwreck - Yampi Lass] ,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=30788 [Yampi Lass],
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843597 ,
Citation address
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844019
Territory Stories
HMAS Yampi Lass
Details:
Title
HMAS Yampi Lass,
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
Stores lighter,
Unit
HMAS Yampi Lass,
Parent unit
Swan Brewery Company,
Date arrived in NT
1942-01-23,
Date left the NT
1943-04-11,
History
Requisitioned on 23 January 1942 by the Royal Australian Navy butwas never commissioned. Built as a scow she first saw service with the Swan Brewery Company and later sold to the Yampi Sound Mining Company which transported iron ore from the port of Koolan Island off the West Australian coast to Derby. She was blown ashore in a storm on 11 April 1943 without casualties and was assessed as irrepairable and later salvaged in October 1945 and sold for £15/10/-.,
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|Stores lighter,
HMAS Yampi Lass,
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/C10919 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 027343 by William Charles Sanders, Second World War, 1939-1945] ,
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/WT70_TO_ZVIR.pdf [Yampi Lass p.96],
https://apps5a.ris.environment.gov.au/shipwreck/public/wreck/wreck.do?key=3592 [Shipwreck - Yampi Lass] ,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=30788 [Yampi Lass],
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843597 ,
Citation address
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844019