HMAS Kanimbla (C78)
http://dbpedia.org/resource/HMAS_Kanimbla_(C78) an entity of type: Thing
Le HMAS Kanimbla est un paquebot desservant des ports australiens, transformé en croiseur auxiliaire puis en en embarcation de débarquement pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Entre 1939 et 1945, il sert au sein de la Royal Navy, puis de la Royal Australian Navy.
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HMAS Kanimbla was a passenger ship converted for use as an armed merchant cruiser and landing ship infantry during World War II. Built during the mid-1930s as the passenger liner MV Kanimbla for McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co, the ship operated in Australian waters until 1939, when she was requisitioned for military service, converted into an armed merchant cruiser, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Kanimbla.
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HMAS Kanimbla (1936)
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HMAS Kanimbla (C78)
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1362861
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1949-03-25
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*Battle honours:
*New Guinea 1944
*Leyte Gulf 1944
*Lingayen Gulf 1945
*Borneo 1945
*Pacific 1945
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*Passenger vessel
*Armed merchant cruiser
*Landing Ship Infantry
*Passenger vessel
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1943-06-01
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* MV Kanimbla
*HMS Kanimbla
*HMAS Kanimbla
*Oriental Queen
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1939-09-06
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*7 × 6-inch guns
*2 × 3-inch anti-aircraft guns
*2 × Lewis light machine guns
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*1 × 4-inch gun
*2 × 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns
*2 × 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
*12 × 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns
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1380
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345
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United Kingdom / Australia
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Returned to civilian service
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July 1933
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1935-12-15
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Diesel engines, twin screws. 10,000 horsepower
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HMAS Kanimbla was a passenger ship converted for use as an armed merchant cruiser and landing ship infantry during World War II. Built during the mid-1930s as the passenger liner MV Kanimbla for McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co, the ship operated in Australian waters until 1939, when she was requisitioned for military service, converted into an armed merchant cruiser, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Kanimbla. Initially used to board and take control of merchant vessels belonging to Occupied Europe and operating in Asian waters, Kanimbla led the raid to capture the Iranian port of Bandar Shahpur in August 1941, and was present during the covert Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour in 1942. In 1943, the ship was converted into a Landing Ship Infantry, transferred to the Royal Australian Navy, and operated throughout the South West Pacific Theatre until the end of the war. Kanimbla was decommissioned and returned to her commercial owners in 1950. In 1961, she was sold to the and renamed Oriental Queen. The ship operated as a liner throughout the Pacific and to Japan until 1973, when she was broken up for scrap.
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Le HMAS Kanimbla est un paquebot desservant des ports australiens, transformé en croiseur auxiliaire puis en en embarcation de débarquement pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Entre 1939 et 1945, il sert au sein de la Royal Navy, puis de la Royal Australian Navy.
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1935-12-15
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Returned to civilian service
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35.188
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1939-09-06
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1949-03-25
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1943-06-01
