MSA (Minesweeper Auxiliary) Brolga (1102) was a minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1988 and 2003. Launched in 1975 by Australian Shipbuilding Industries, the ship was designed for the Department of Transport as the lighthouse tender Lumen.

Brolga was a lighthouse tender acquired by the RAN under the Craft of Opportunity Program to serve as an auxiliary minesweeper.

During their naval service the trawlers, BROLGA, GUNUNDAAL and KORAAGA were manned by the Naval Brigade and with the tugs resumed their mercantile careers in 1919. HMAS GERANIUM, Flower class minesweeper in Sydney, May 1920

1988: COOP Program auxiliary minesweeper HMAS BROLGA [II] inbound on Sydney Harbour - NHSA. 5649. Passing down Sydney Harbour in 1988, the 268 ton HMAS BROLGA [II] is entering her

Jun 14, 2011 · QUEEN MARY seen at Fremantle in 1940 with HMAS BONTHORPE. Following the end of the war Brolga worked for the State Fisheries until the organization was disbanded, and was then sold commercially. She was wrecked on August 13, 1926 all 11 aboard were saved.

The Castle class trawler BROLGA, was requisitioned by the RAN as an auxiliary minesweeper. BROLGA, and her sister ships GUNUNDAAL and KORAAGA, operated along the NSW/Victorian coast searching for mines ...

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named Brolga, after the brolga.

MSA (Minesweeper Auxiliary) Brolga (1102) was a minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1988 and 2003. She was constructed in Fremantle, Western Australia by Australian Shipbuilding Industries (now Tenix) in 1975, and …

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