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This site is to celebrate and commemorate the history and legacy of the 16th Minesweepers, their valuable role in the peacekeeping and protection of Australia, and her people and is non profit making. |
| Welcome to the Royal Australian Navy - 16th Minesweeping Squadron! |
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| Welcome to The RAN 16th Minesweeping Squadron! This site is about us, who we are and what we did whilst serving for Our Fine and Beautiful Country of Australia. |
| The Plaque dedicated to the Minesweepers of the RAN unveiled in Canberra, ACT |
Our Reunion took place at the beginning of August! If you were there and would like to share your photos and stories of the event please email us. Meanwhile, here are the first of the reunion photos very kindly contributed by Cliff Jamieson (jamo) ~ Thanks to a recent contribution from Brian Gray, we now have a page for the ships: Gull Hawk and Ibis If you would like to contribute to these pages please email me ~ We have a new Poem added to our growing collection. See it here, Thanks to Bill Krause for allowing us to have it here, we are honoured ~ Clearance Diving Team 3 - Royal Australian Navy Have a lovely and informative website for those interested in what they did during the Vietnam War, please go to www.rancdt3.com Ray Simpson has kindly shared some pre-commission photos of the HMAS Ibis with us. Click here to see them. ~ May 2007 News has just reached us that last September Allan 'Shorty' Moffatt was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in HM The Queen's Honours list of June 2006. Go here for more of the event. Congratulations Shorty! ~ If you would like to have contribute to it, or have anything you would like to have added, please let us know. This is for minesweeper crews and about you and your history, please feel free to use it! ~ We salute and celebrate the lives of those who served across the forces and continue to do so. We remember their bravery and courage and their commitment and loyalty to their countries in the duty of liberty and protection, we will remember them. Latest Update 28th August 2008 email us at admin1 'at' sixteenthnavalsquadaus.org The Guest Book is still open, but all submissions are moderated. Please don't worry if you don't see your message instantly, it will appear! This is to prevent the huge amounts of spam that get submitted. If your message is urgent,you might like to try emailing one of us or using the msn group. Thank you. |
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| The HMAS Ibis Mascot Cockatoo(C)Kindly reproduced with permission of Ian 'Huckers' Hughes |
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| Important: Please note: All Photographs are (c) and are used with permissions. If you wish to use any original material or photographs or graphics from this site, please contact us before doing so, or you will be at the mercy of the deckhand and expect to walk the plank not to mention the infringement of international copyright laws. Thank You. |
| Info Spot |
| MSN Groups for 16th Naval Squadron We have an online group, if you would like to join and have an msn or hotmail email address go to: http://groups.msn.com/ 16thMinesweeperSquadronAU S/ to become a member. Please let us know who you are as any unidentified person will not be able to join unless we can recognise you. This forum is a private group and is for members only. Please use it to keep up with friends and their news! |
| As this is non profit making, any donations go to the upkeep and maintainence of the site, the monthly webspace and domain name fees and only that. Our time is still free. If you would like to contribute please click the Paypal link above. Thank you. |
| This site is now best viewed with a resolution of 1400x900 and with Internet Explorer 7, arial font on medium sized text. Any settings below these may cause the pages to display incorrectly. |
| copyright (c) sixteenthnavalsquadaus.org 2004-2008 all rights reserved. site conception and editorial content copyright (c) RG Clarey,JL Clarey & C Collins-King. 2004-2008 all rights reserved, |
| This site is devoted to the 16th Minesweeping Squadron and is not a representation or sanctioned of the rest of the RAN. |
| Feel free to have a gander and if you have any comments or wish to know more, please contact us at the links below. |