HMAS Silver Cloud
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| Name: | Silver Cloud |
| History | |
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| Name: | Silver Cloud |
| Fate: | Burnt to the waterline in 1943 |
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HMAS Silver Cloud (Q52) was a channel patrol boat operated by the Naval Auxiliary Patrol of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II.
Silver Cloud was a 40 ft cruiser built in 1933 by Lars Halvorsen and Sons. She was requisitioned and later commissioned by the RAN as a channel patrol boat. Silver Cloud was destroyed by fire and burnt to the waterline at Sydney on 12 July 1943 and scrapped on 22 July 1943.
References
- Cassells, Vic (1995), For those in peril- : a comprehensive listing of the ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy who have paid the supreme sacrifice in the wars of the twentieth century, Kangaroo Press, ISBN 978-0-86417-734-6
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