HMAS Carpentaria

HMAS Carpentaria
Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland in Australia
Site information
TypeNaval base
Operator Royal Australian Navy
Location
HMAS Carpentaria is located in Queensland
HMAS Carpentaria
HMAS Carpentaria
Location off the coast of Queensland
Coordinates10°34′44″S 142°13′12″E / 10.57889°S 142.22000°E / -10.57889; 142.22000
Site history
Fate

HMAS Carpentaria is a former Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base that was located on Thursday Island, part of the Torres Strait Islands in Queensland, Australia. As of May 1945, three of the twenty Australian Rendering Mines Safe (RMS) personnel were located at Carpentaria.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "How R.A.N Establishments Grew With Fleet". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 September 1945. p. 2. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  2. ↑ "RMS Operations by the RAN in the Pacific – World War II". Navy History. Naval Historical Society of Australia. 10 June 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2017.