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HMAS Westralia (F95)

Details:

Title

HMAS Westralia (F95),

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

Armed Merchant Cruiser, Passenger Motor Liner,

Unit

HMAS Westralia (F95),

Parent unit

Huddart Parker & Co. Pty Ltd.,

Date arrived in NT

1940-05-03,

Date left the NT

1945-12,

History

Requisitioned 2 November 1939. Westralia participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines which was a final catastrophe for the Japanese navy.,

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, Armed merchant cruiser, Passenger motor liner, HMAS Westralia (F95),

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Royal Australian Navy,

License

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

Related links

https://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-westralia-i [HMAS Westralia (I)], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=30888 [HMAS Westralia (F95)],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843594,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844023