Description
Title: HMAS Mildura – Some Recollections 1941 – 1965
Editors: Allan and Peter Waugh
Condition: Near Mint – Signed by one of the authors on a taped in HMAS Mildura Association label on the inside of the front cover.
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 76 pages
Comments: The history of HMAS Mildura from 1941 to 1965.
HMAS Mildura (J207/M207), named for the city of Mildura, Victoria, was one of 60 Bathurst class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
In August 1945, the ship was the first Allied vessel to enter Hong Kong. She swept for mines that allowed the Allied fleet to safely enter for the official Japanese surrender.
The corvette received two battle honours for her wartime service: “Pacific 1941–45” and “New Guinea 1943–44”.
Mildura was paid off to reserve at Fremantle, Western Australia on 21 May 1948 but was recommissioned on 20 February 1951 for use as a training ship for National Service trainees. Mildura paid off again at Melbourne on 11 September 1953, arrived at Brisbane under tow on 8 December 1954 where she served as an immobilised reserve training ship.
