DEDICATION
I dedicate the history of the 'Lucky Ship'
HMAS Shropshire to all members of the Ship's Company who served in her from the days of refitting the Chatham dockyards to being placed in permanent reserve in Sydney in 1947 until she was scrapped in 1955.

 


CONTENTS

Please click on the links below to the chapters of HMAS Shropshire

 
Foreword Glossary Prologue Acknowledgements
My Few Words Brief resumé of
HMAS Shropshire's
War Record		 Message from
Commander Bracegirdle		 Introduction
Epilogue About the Author Appendix: Allied Ships in Tokyo Bay Honours and Awards
 
CHAPTER ONE

Specifications and Comparisons

 
CHAPTER TWO

Brief History of HMS Shropshire/HMAS Canberra

 
CHAPTER THREE

The First Tour of Duty. 2-12-1942 to 16-8-1943
The draft, Refit Trials, Working Up
232 days - Chatham - Scapa Flow - Greenock
 
 
CHAPTER FOUR

The Second Tour of Duty. 17-8-1943 to 28-10-1943
73 days - Greenwich - Freetown - Cape Town - Durban - Fremantle - Sydney

 
 
CHAPTER FIVE

The Third Tour of Duty. 29-10-1943 to 8-2-1944
The First Battle Tour
103 days - 9 days in Sydney - 94 days at sea
Sydney - Milne Bay - Arawe - Cape Gloucester - Sydney
 
 
CHAPTER SIX

The Fourth Tour of Duty. 9-2-1944 to 29-6-1944
The Second Battle Tour
142 days - 26 days in Sydney - 116 days at sea
Sydney - Milne Bay Admiralty's - Hollandia - Tanamerah Bay - Biak - Sydney

 
 
CHAPTER SEVEN

The Fifth Tour of Duty. 30-6-1944 to 2-6-1945
The Third Battle Tour 338 days - 78 days in Sydney and 260 days at sea Sydney - Seeadler Harbour - Aitape (Sowam, Cape D'Jervon Yakamul - Moratai (Tg Gila) - Humboldt Bay (Hollandia) - Leyte (San Pedro Bay, San Joaquim) - Surigao Straits (Night Encounter) - Lingayen (San Fernando, San Fabian, Poro Point) - Corregidor - Sydney
 
 
CHAPTER EIGHT

The Sixth Tour of Duty. 3-6-1945 to 2-2-1946
The Fourth Battle Tour
245 days - 64 days in Sydney - 181 days at sea - 80 days in waters of occupied Japan Sydney - Seeadler Harbour - Tawi Tawi - Labuan - Balikpapan - Subic Bay - Okinawa - Tokyo - Wewak - Sydney
 
 
CHAPTER NINE

The Seventh Tour of Duty. 3-2-1945 to 10-4-1946
67 days - Sydney - Melbourne - Hobart - Sydney - Brisbane - Sydney
 
 
CHAPTER TEN

The Eighth Tour of Duty. 11-4-1946 to 15-11-1946
217 days - Sydney - Melbourne - Fremantle - Cape Town - Freetown - Portsmouth - Gibraltar - Malta - Valetta - Port Said - Aden - Columbo - Fremantle - Adelaide - Sydney Including Victory March in London

 
 
CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Ninth Tour of Duty
135 days - Sydney - Hervey Bay - Yokohama - Kobe - Sydney (Athol Bight 'Graveyard')
 
 

HOT LINKS

Click Here to read about The Author

Click Here to view the Complement of HMAS Shropshire as listed in the book 'Porthole'

HMAS Shropshire - Attention Grabbing
in the First Three Seconds : This is a summary of a speech made in 2000 prepared for Vince Highland by Stan Nicholls
Click Here to read the speech.

Click Here to read about the Victory March in London, March 1946

Click Here to read about "The Last Great Sea Battle"


Click here to view Legend of ships in Surigao Strait Sea Battle

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