The Kanimbla class was a class of amphibious transport ships (designated Landing Platform Amphibious) operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Two...
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amphibious infantry battalion. Planning to replace the Kanimbla-class landing platform amphibious ships Kanimbla and Manoora, and the heavy landing ship...
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HMAS Kanimbla (L 51) was a Kanimbla-class landing platform amphibious ship operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Originally built for the United...
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HMAS Kanimbla was a passenger ship converted for use as an armed merchant cruiser and landing ship infantry during World War II. Built during the mid-1930s...
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project to build six amphibious watercraft to operate from the Royal Australian Navy's two Kanimbla class landing platform amphibious (LPA). These craft...
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respectively. The two ships were purchased on 29 September 2000. Kanimbla-class landing platform amphibious Friedman 2002, pp. 339–344. Blackman 1972, p. 504. Gardiner...
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HMAS Manoora (L 52) (category Kanimbla-class landing platforms amphibious)
HMAS Manoora (L 52) was a Kanimbla-class landing platform amphibious ship operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Originally built for the United...
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The Australian military's first amphibious warfare ships were the three Landing Ships Infantry (LSI): HMAS Kanimbla, HMAS Manoora, and HMAS Westralia...
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Kanimbla may refer to: HMAS Kanimbla, several ships of Royal Australian Navy Kanimbla a Sydney K-class ferry Kanimbla-class landing platform amphibious...
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The Balikpapan class is a class of eight heavy landing craft. All eight were built by Walkers Limited for the Australian Army in the early 1970s. A reorganisation...
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Kanimbla-class landing platform amphibious (LPA) ships, following their purchase from the United States Navy. Forgacs constructed hull blocks for the Anzac-class frigate...
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Bay class – LSD HMAS Choules (former RFA Largs Bay) Decommissioned: Kanimbla class – LPA (ex-USN Newport-class tank landing ship) HMAS Kanimbla HMAS Manoora...
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HMAS Choules (category Bay-class landing ships of the Royal Australian Navy)
for the RAN as a replacement for the heavy landing ship HMAS Tobruk or one of the Kanimbla-class amphibious warfare ships. Interest in the ship was also...
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HMAS Tobruk (L 50) (redirect from Landing Ship Heavy)
company with the Navy's two Kanimbla-class landing platform amphibious ships. This was the first time that an Australian amphibious readiness group had been...
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LCVP (Australia) (category Amphibious warfare vessels of the Royal Australian Navy)
Australian-designed and built Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel (similar in size and concept to the World War II LCVP) from the landing ship, heavy HMAS Tobruk...
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brigade-size group to activation on short notice. Delays in refitting the two Kanimbla class vessels acquired from the United States Navy several years earlier meant...
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ALC 50 (category Amphibious warfare vessels of the Australian Army)
The Australian Landing Craft 50 or ALC 50 was a class of Landing Craft Utility operated by the Australian Army in the 1960s. The two ALC 50s were built...
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HMAS LST 3008 (category LST (3)-class tank landing ships of the Royal Australian Navy)
HMAS LST 3008 was a landing ship tank which was briefly operated by the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built at Harland & Wolff in...
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HMAS Westralia (F95) (category Amphibious warfare vessels of the Royal Australian Navy)
States Army and United States Marine Corps, and took part in numerous amphibious landings. After being used to repatriate personnel at the end of the war,...
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Veterans' Affairs, Australia Priolo, Gary P. "Landing Ship Medium LSM-547". NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive. Retrieved 13 January 2010. "Army...
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HMPNGS Lakekamu (category Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force)
HMPNGS Lakekamu is Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy (LCH) operated by the Maritime Operations Element of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF)...
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HMAS Tarakan (L3017) (category LST (3)-class tank landing ships of the Royal Australian Navy)
HMAS Tarakan (L3017) was a Mark III Tank Landing Ship, or LST(3), that served in the Royal Navy (RN) during 1945 and 1946 and Royal Australian Navy (RAN)...
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board the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. Also the two Kanimbla-class landing platform amphibious ships, and the escort maintenance ship HMAS Stalwart,...
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BRP Batak (category Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy of the Philippine Navy)
BRP Batak (LC-299) is a Balikpapan-class heavy landing craft operated by the Philippine Navy. One of eight vessels built by Walkers Limited for the Royal...
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HMAS Balikpapan (category Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy)
HMAS Balikpapan (L 126) was the lead ship of the Balikpapan class of heavy landing craft (LCH). Ordered in 1969, Balikpapan entered service with the Australian...
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HMAS LST 3014 (category LST (3)-class tank landing ships of the Royal Australian Navy)
HMAS LST 3014 was a landing ship tank which was briefly operated by the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built at Barclay Curle in...
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HMAS Lae (L3035) (category LST (3)-class tank landing ships of the Royal Australian Navy)
HMAS Lae (L3035) was a Landing Ship, Tank which was operated by the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built by William Denny and Brothers...
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HMAS Brunei (category Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy)
HMAS Brunei (L 127). During her RAN career, Brunei (named after the amphibious landings at Brunei Bay during the World War II Battle of North Borneo) visited...
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HMPNGS Buna (category Balikpapan-class landing craft heavy of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force)
HMPNGS Buna is a Balikpapan-class heavy landing craft operated by the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF). Prior to 1974, the vessel was called HMAS...
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in February 1978. In December 1980, trials to mate Jervis Bay with the landing craft HMAS Balikpapan were successfully performed in Sydney Harbour. In...
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