HMAS Labuan II L128
by Miroslava Jurcik
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HMAS Labuan II L128
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Miroslava Jurcik
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HMAS Labuan (II) commissioned into the RAN on 9 March 1973 at Walkers Shipyard Maryborough having been accepted from the Army earlier in the day. She was one of six Landing Craft Heavy (LCH) vessels to join the First Australian Landing Craft Squadron based at HMAS Moreton in Brisbane.
This pic was taken during International Navy Fleet Review 2013.
With her International Fleet Review commitments completed, Labuan departed Australian waters to participate in Operation RENDER SAFE, an annual, Australian-led operation to help remove the explosive remnants of World War II (WWII) from the South-West Pacific. The 2013 operation was conducted in the Solomon Islands in November and December. Some 200 Australian personnel from all three services were joined by the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team as well as clearance divers from New Zealand, the USA and Canada. Less than 24 hours after the establishment of the operation headquarters in Honiara, the team located and made safe 21 pieces of unexploded WWII ordnance near Honiara International Airport. Over the course of the operation, which finished on 7 December, some 10,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance were located and either destroyed or made safe. Many of those items were found near villages, airport runways, beaches, coastal waters and even in community vegetable gardens.
To rad complete history and see old pictures follow this link http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-labuan-ii
Labuan was decommissioned in November 2014. She was transferred to the PNGDF for use as a training ship and was commissioned as HMPNGS Lakekamu in December 2014.
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October 20th, 2015
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