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Ship History - HMAS Warramunga
Image: HMAS Warramunga
Source: Museum Victoria
The Royal Australian Navy Tribal class destroyer HMAS Warramunga was commissioned in November 1942 and built in Australia at Cockatoo Island Dockyard. Serving alongside US Navy vessels in Task Force 74, Warramunga operated off the north coast of New Guinea in 1943, seeing action at Saidor, Cape Gloucester. After a period in Australia, Warramunga once again served in the New Guinea area at Aitape, Biak and then in support of the invasion of the Philippines in October 1944, where the ship came under heavy kamikaze attack. After the surrender of Japan, Warramunga served in support of the initial occupation near Tokyo.
After post-war modification, Warramunga served during the Korean War where the ship evacuated wounded soldiers at Chinnampo in December 1950 under difficult conditions in a narrow channel. On a second tour of operations Warramunga mainly carried out shore bombardment duties. Further modifications were made to the ship in the mid 1950s but by 1959 Warramunga was in reserve and was sold for scrap to a Japanese salvage firm in 1963.
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Naval Ship Model - Destroyer, HMAS Warramunga (I)
This model was built by Mr R. Sherlock and was purchased by the Museum in 1960.
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Motor Ship Model - HMAS Wyatt Earp
This scale model of the antarctic research vessel HMAS Wyatt Earp was made by John B. Walker, a professional ship model-maker and former employee of the ship construction branch of the ...
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Photograph - Massey Ferguson, Loading MF205 Tractors onto HMAS Melbourne, 23 Nov 1964
Photograph of MF205 Tractor being loaded onto H.M.A.S. Melbourne on the 23rd November 1964. The Massey Ferguson Review Jan/Feb 1965 No. 76. records 'Two MF 205X Tractors have an import ...
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Photograph - Massey Ferguson, Loading MF205 Tractors onto HMAS Melbourne, 23 Nov 1964
Photograph of MF205 Tractor being loaded onto H.M.A.S. Melbourne on the 23rd November 1964. The Massey Ferguson Review Jan/Feb 1965 No. 76 records 'Two MF 205X Tractors have an importan ...
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Guided Target Missile - Government Aircraft Factories GAF), Turana, circa 1975
The Museum received this example of a Turana from Aerospace Technologies of Australia (formerly GAF) in 1994 and has the serial number P1-012. It has five small black parachute stencils ...
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Deck Plan - HMAS Wyatt Earp, 1947
Plan of the forward deck of antarctic research ship HMAS Wyatt Earp showing space available for storage of the RAAF Vought Kingfisher floatplane used on its exploration voyage. Drawn by ...
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Guided Anti-Submarine Missile - Government Aircraft Factory, Australia, Ikara, 1972
The Ikara anti-submarine missile was designed and built by the Government Aircraft Factory in Melbourne for use from warships developed from the earlier Malkara anti-tank missile. The s ...
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