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HMAS Tamworth (J 181)

Minesweeper of the Bathurst class

NavyThe Royal Australian Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassBathurst 
PennantJ 181 
Built byWalkers Ltd. (Maryborough, Queensland, Australia) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 Aug, 1941 
Launched14 Mar, 1942 
Commissioned8 Aug, 1942 
End service30 Apr, 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned at Sydney on 30 April 1946 and transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy on the same day being renamed Tidore.
Tidore was transferred to the Indonesian Navy in December 1949 and renamed Pati Unus.
Stricken in 1969.

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. William H. Deans, RANR(S)
8 August 1942 – October 1943

T/Lt. D.B. Lloyd-Jones, RANR(S)
October 1943 – June 1945

Lt. M.B. Gale, RANR
June 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Tamworth include:

22 Feb, 1944
The Australian minesweeper HMAS Tamworth and the Indian minesweeper HMIS Orissa both pick up survivors from the American tanker E.G. Seubert that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-510 about 200 nautical miles east of Aden in position 13º50'N, 48º49'E.

HMAS Tamworth also picks up 52 survivors from the British tanker San Alvaro that was also torpedoed and heavily damaged by the German submarine U-510 about 200 nautical miles east of Aden in position 13º50'N, 48º49'E. The burning San Alvaro was then scuttled by HMAS Tamworth with gunfire and depth charges.


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