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John Monash (AS 3051) was a cargo ship operated by the Australian Army between 1965 and 1975.
History | |
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Australia | |
Namesake | General Sir John Monash |
Operator | Australian Army (1965–1975) |
Launched | 1955 |
Commissioned | 1965 |
Decommissioned | 1975 |
Identification | IMO number: 5226350 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1,010 tons light, 2,413 full load |
Length | 233.2 ft (71.1 m) |
Beam | 37.6 ft (11.5 m) |
Draft | 16.1 ft (4.9 m) |
Propulsion | One M47M British Polar diesel, single shaft, 1,120 bhp (840 kW) |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
Capacity |
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Complement | 41 |
Notes | Characteristics are for the ship's Army service and are from Gillet (1988)[1] |
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.[1][2] She was also used as a training ship and to supply Army units deployed in South Vietnam.[1] In the later role she completed eleven voyages to South Vietnam between 1965 and 1972.[3] The ship was sold in 1975 to a foreign company.[1]
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