HMAS Tongkol
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hmas-tongkol-293-11999762
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HMAS Tongkol
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HMAS Tongkol was an auxiliary minesweeper which served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II. Tongkol was built in 1926 by Smiths Dock Company, Middlesbrough as a fisheries research ship for the Malaysian Government which cost £23,000. Bought by Mr A. A. Murrell in 1929 from the Ceylon Fisheries, for his Sydney fishing fleet. At the start of World War II, Tongkol was requisitioned on 7 September 1939 and was commissioned into the RAN on 4 October 1939 as an auxiliary minesweeper
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2021-06-30T14:59:09Z
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