1934 |
??.07.1934 - Keel laid. |
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25.10.1934 - Launched |
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1935 |
07.02.1935 - Completed, entered service on the Cairns to Fremantle run. |
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1939 |
11.10.1939 - Requisitioned by The Royal Australian Navy. Sent to Garden Island in Sydney to be refitted for service as an armed merchant cruiser (AMC). She was fitted with, 7 x 6-inch guns; 2 x 3-inch anti-aircraft guns and 2 x Lewis light machine guns. |
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12.12.1939 - Commissioned into the R.A.N. under the command of Commander Arthur Spurgeon. |
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1940 |
05.02.1940 - Refit completed, underwent sea trials in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. After conducting further exercises off the Queensland coast and in the Coral Sea, Manoora sailed for Macassar |
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01.04.1940 - Arrived Masassar and conducted patrols to prevent the breakout of German merchant ships from Dutch East Indies ports. |
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1942 |
30.09.1942 - Arrived Sydney, converted to a Landing Ship, Infantry (LSI), fitted with 1 x 6-inch gun, which was later replaced by 2 x 4-inch guns, 2 x 3-inch anti-aircraft guns, 8 x 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns. |
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1943 |
02.02.1943 - Refit completed, officially an LSI. |
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1944 |
10.09.1944 - Manoora embarked 1272 men at Maffin Bay |
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15.09.1944 - Arrived Morotai |
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16.09.1944 - Sailed Morotai for Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. |
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18.09.1944 - Arrived Humboldt Bay. |
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10.10.1944 - A full scale rehearsal of the landing was carried out at Tanahmerah Bay. |
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13.10.1944 - Sailed Humboldt Bay for Leyte. |
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20.10.1944 - Arrived off Panaon Island in the province of Southern Leyte. |
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30.11.1944 - As part of Transport Group 'A', she embarked troops and stores for the Lingayen landings. . Transport Group 'A' then proceeded to Lae where, in company with Landing Group 'B', practice landings were carried out. The ships then sailed for Manus Island. |
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31.12.1944 - Sailed Manus Island for Luzon Island in Lingayen Gulf. |
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1945 |
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08.01.1945 - Arrived off Lingayen Gulf. As the ships made their final approach to the gulf they came under air attack. |
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09.01.1945 - The troops were landed, supported by a heavy bombardment. The LSI's discharged their cargoes rapidly and left the area that evening to avoid further air attack, returning via Leyte to Morotai. |
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12.01.1945 - Arrived Leyte, the decision was made to repaint Manoora in a "dazzle" disruptive camouflage paint scheme as she had been found to be too conspicuous at Lingayen Gulf. |
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21.01.1945 - Arrived Morotai |
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27.04.1945 - Sailed Morotai for the landings on Tarakan towing a Landing Craft Tank (LCT).. |
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30.04.1945 - Arrived Tarakan and the LCT was slipped. |
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01.05.1945 - The landings took place, the LSI's finished discharging their cargos the next day then sailed for Morotai to load more cargo for the landing beaches at Tarakan. |
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04.05.1945 - Sailed Morotai, in company with a large group of American vessels for Brunei. |
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10.05.1945 - Arrived off Brunei and commenced landing her embarked troops on Green Beach before unloading her cargo. |
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11.05.1945 - Sailed Brunei for Morotai. |
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14.05.1945 - Arrived Morotai from Brunei. |
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01.07.1945 - Arrived Balikpapan, disembarked troops and unloaded her cargo. |
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01.07.1945 - Sailed for Morotai at 19:30. |
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04.07.1945 - Arrived Morotai, embarked reinforcements. |
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04.07.1945 - Sailed Morotai. |
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07.07.1945 - Arrived Balikpapan. The remainder of the war was spent on transport duties around New Guinea, the Philippines and Borneo. |
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??.09.1945 - began post war operations repatriating troops from New Guinea, New Britain, Morotai and Borneo. This work continued until April 1946, when she made the first of four trips to Japan. |
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1947 |
06.12.1947 -Paid off from the R.A.N. |
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1949 |
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31.08.1949 - Returned to her owners. She then underwent a major refit at Cockatoo Island Dockyard to fully restore her to merchant service. This involved fully overhauling her machinery, removing all military features and modernising her crew and passenger accommodation. |
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1961 |
26.08. 1961 - Sailed Melbourne for Indonisia, she had been purchased by the Indonisian Government and renamed TSMV Ambulombo. She was refitted as a pilgrim ship for the carriage of pilgrims to Mecca. |
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1965 |
.1965 - sold to another Indonesian company, PT Affan Raya, renamed TSMV Affan Oceana |
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1966 |
.1966 - sold to PT Perusahaan Pelajaran and renamed TSMV Ambulombo. |
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1970 |
1970 - laid up |
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1972 |
1972 - sold to Taiwanese ship beakers. |
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18.11.1972 - Whilst on route to the breakers in Kaohsiung, under tow by the Japanese tug Fujisan Maru, Ambulombo sprang a leak and foundered at 18°19’ N-120°34’ E. |
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