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Australia // Capture of Tarakan / Pennant

Sub-collection: Australia/Pacific

Australia // Capture of Tarakan / Pennant
The first HMAS Westralia was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Glasgow for the Huddart Parker company as a twin screw motor vessel, being completed in 1929. Westralia was requisitioned for war service by the Australian government in 1939 as an armed merchant cruiser.

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