Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/November 14

HMAS Bungaree was an Australian auxiliary minelayer of World War II. Bungaree was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy in October 1940 and commissioned into the RAN on 6 June 1941 after being converted into a minelayer. HMAS Bungaree laid her first minefield off Port Moresby in August 1941 and, as Australia's only minelayer, laid over 10,000 mines in defensive minefields in Australian and New Zealand waters during World War II. Bungaree served as a survey ship from January 1944 and a store ship from August 1944. HMAS Bungaree was decommissioned on 7 August 1946 and was returned to her owners on 5 November 1947.