BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS JUNEE. JUNEE WAS COMPLETED ON 26 APRIL 1944 AND SERVED ...

Places	Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Fremantle Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Perth Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Rottnest Island
Accession Number	045092
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Negative
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

BATHURST CLASS MINESWEEPER/CORVETTE HMAS JUNEE. JUNEE WAS COMPLETED ON 26 APRIL 1944 AND SERVED IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA. IN THE POST WAR PERIOD SHE WAS STATIONED AT FREMANTLE WHERE SHE SERVED IN THE 1950S AS A SEAGOING TRAINING SHIP. IN 1962 JUNEE WAS SOLD BY PUBLIC TENDER TO A PERTH ENGINEER WHO WAS CONVERTING HER TO A FISHERIES PARENTSHIP WHEN HE DIED IN 1963. THE SHIP THEN PASSED TO A PERTH SCRAP DEALER AND AFTER BEING STRIPPED SHE WAS SCUTTLED SOME 20 MILES WEST OF ROTTNEST ISLAND ON 7 SEPTEMBER 1968. HMAS JUNEE WAS THE LAST OF HER CLASS TO BE LAUNCHED.