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Australian stores lighter Yampi Lass

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Name
  
S.B.C Yampi Lass

Owner
  
Swan Brewery Company Yampi Sound Mining Company

Operator
  
Royal Australian Navy (194?-1943)

Yampi Lass was a stores lighter of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the Second World War.

Built as a scow, S.B.C was used by the Swan Brewery Company and transported beer down the Swan River. She was bought by the Yampi Sound Mining Company and used to transport stores to their mine on Koolan Island.

She was requistioned by the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War, however she was never commissioned. While at HMAS Melville, Darwin she was sunk during a storm inside Darwin Harbour on 11 April 1943. Salvaged in October 1945, she was sold for £15 10s.

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Australian stores lighter Yampi Lass Wikipedia