Yampi Lass
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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
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She was requistioned by the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War, however she was never commissioned. While at , Darwin she was sunk during a storm inside Darwin Harbour on 11 April 1943. Salvaged in October 1945, she was sold for £15 10s.
Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...
(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
Koolan Island
Koolan Island is an island off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia in the Buccaneer Archipelago. It is about 1,900 km north of Perth, and about 130 km north of Derby...
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She was requistioned by the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War, however she was never commissioned. While at , Darwin she was sunk during a storm inside Darwin Harbour on 11 April 1943. Salvaged in October 1945, she was sold for £15 10s.