Australian military vessel
HMAS ML 827 was a Fairmile B Motor Launch of the Royal Australian Navy .[ 1]
Fate
Commanded by Lieutenant Ian Fairley Graham Downs, OBE; While on patrol ML 827 went aground in Jacquinot Bay , New Britain on 17 November 1944. She capsized and sank while under tow on 20 November 1944 off Cape Kawai, New Britain.
References
Further reading
Evans, Peter (2002) Fairmile Ships of the Royal Australian Navy. Vol 1. ISBN 978-1-876439-86-6
Evans, Peter (2002) Fairmile Ships of the Royal Australian Navy. Vol 2. ISBN 1-876439-29-7
Stevens, D (2005) The Royal Australian Navy in World War II. (2nd edition) ISBN 1-74114-184-2
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1944
Shipwrecks
1 Nov: USS Abner Read , TA20 HMS Whitaker
2 Nov: Fort Lee
3 Nov: Akikaze
5 Nov: Kiebitz Nachi PB-107 TA21
7 Nov: USS Albacore , HM LST-420
8 Nov: USS Growler
9 Nov: U-537
10 Nov: Gokoku Maru USS Mount Hood
11 Nov: Hamanami Naganami USS Scamp , Shimakaze U-771 U-1200 Wakatsuki
12 Nov: HMAS Marlean , Tirpitz
13 Nov: Akebono Akishimo Hatsuharu Hatsu Maru I-12 I-38 Kiso Okinami
17 Nov: USS LST-6 , Mayasan Maru NKI 01 Shin'yō Scharnhorst
18 Nov: I-41 Seisho Maru
20 Nov: USS Mississinewa , HMAS ML 827
21 Nov: Kongō Urakaze
22 Nov: Hokkai Maru HMS Stratagem
24 Nov: Hansa
25 Nov: Kumano HMCS Shawinigan , Shimotsuki Sumida U-482 Yasoshima
27 Nov: Rigel
28 Nov: U-80 PB-105 Yu 2
29 Nov: Fushimi I-365 Shinano
Unknown date: Mogador U-479 U-1020 Other incidents
10 Nov: USS Abarenda , USS Alhena , USS Argonne , USS Aries , USS Cacapon , USS Cebu , HMS Hydra , USS Kyne , USS Lyman , USS Mindanao , USS Oberrender , USS Petrof Bay , USS Piedmont , USS Potawatomi , USS Preserver , USS Saginaw Bay , USS Talbot , USS Walter C. Wann , USS YMS-238 , USS Young
13 Nov: U-1052
17 Nov: HMAS ML 827 , Seisho Maru
23 Nov: Gus W. Darnell
27 Nov: USS Gar
28 Nov: USS Spearfish
30 Nov: HMS Duff
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