Scrap Iron Flotilla
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The Scrap Iron Flotilla was an Australian
The flotilla consisted of five Royal Australian Navy (RAN) destroyers. The five ships of the flotilla had been Royal Navy ships that had been built and served during the First World War and transferred to the RAN in the 1930s. HMAS Waterhen was sunk in the Mediterranean in 1941, HMAS Vampire was sunk in the Indian Ocean in 1942, and HMAS Voyager was sunk near Timor in 1942. HMAS Stuart and HMAS Vendetta survived the war.
The story of the ships in the flotilla, up to 1943, was recounted in the book Scrap-Iron Flotilla by John F. Moyes, who served as a Sub-Lieutenant RANVR on HMAS Voyager later in the war, and collected many stories from the crews.[2] Moyes was on HMAS Voyager when she was sunk, but survived.
The flotilla
"Scrap Iron Flotilla" march
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References
- ^ "The Scrap Iron Flotilla". gunplot.net. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
- ^ Moyes, John F. (1943). Scrap-Iron Flotilla. Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Pty. Ltd.
- ^ "The Royal Australian Navy Band, The First 100 Years – 1913-2013" (PDF). RAN Band Newsletter, June 2013, Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
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