Commissioned 1965 Beam 37.6 ft (11.5 m) Length 71 m | Decommissioned 1975 Launched 1955 | |
Displacement 1,010 tons light, 2,413 full load | ||
John Monash (AS 3051) was a cargo ship operated by the Australian Army between 1965 and 1975.
Service history
John Monash was built for the Associated Steamships Co. and was completed in 1955. She was purchased by the Australian Army in 1965 to provide a means of transporting cargo which was unsuitable for the Army's four Landing Ship Medium and was assigned to the 32nd Small Ship Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers. She was also used as a training ship and to supply Army units deployed in South Vietnam. In the later role she completed eleven voyages to South Vietnam between 1965 and 1972. The ship was sold in 1975 to a foreign company.
References
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