Territory Stories
Plover
Details:
Title
Plover,
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
Lugger,
Intra-harbour Lighter,
Unit
Plover,
Parent unit
Jiro Muramatsu,
Date arrived in NT
1941-12-01,
History
Plover, a lugger, had an Australian owner with a Japanese background. It was found hidden off Bathurst Island and was brought back to Darwin and impounded. It was fitted with a machine gun and the Royal Australian Navy utilised it as a intra-harbour lighter and despatch craft.,
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,
Intra-harbour lighter,
Pearling lugger,
Plover,
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/C50773 [Australian War Memorial, Photograph P00365.005, Second World War, 1939-1945] ,
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38330374/the-navy-vol-73-no-3-jul-2011-navy-league-of-australia [Wooden luggers: friend or foe?] ,
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843565 ,
Citation address
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844073
Territory Stories
Plover
Details:
Title
Plover,
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
Lugger,
Intra-harbour Lighter,
Unit
Plover,
Parent unit
Jiro Muramatsu,
Date arrived in NT
1941-12-01,
History
Plover, a lugger, had an Australian owner with a Japanese background. It was found hidden off Bathurst Island and was brought back to Darwin and impounded. It was fitted with a machine gun and the Royal Australian Navy utilised it as a intra-harbour lighter and despatch craft.,
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,
Intra-harbour lighter,
Pearling lugger,
Plover,
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/C50773 [Australian War Memorial, Photograph P00365.005, Second World War, 1939-1945] ,
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38330374/the-navy-vol-73-no-3-jul-2011-navy-league-of-australia [Wooden luggers: friend or foe?] ,
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843565 ,
Citation address
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844073