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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 |
| ~Novemeber 2008~ The RAN has issued a statement regarding Bereavement Pins, full statement can be found here ~ As of February 2009, the MSN group attached to the MSS will be closed down. MSN are doing this to all groups and have requested that the group is migrated to the Multiply Network. This has now been done. Sorry if this is confusing and at short notice, all MSN moderators were not given much notice of the change in service. Consequently the group is now to be found at: 16th Minesweeping Squadron ~ Our site email has changed!! Its now: 16thminesweepingsquadaus@gmail.com ~ October site Update -Info shout out ~ For any special and notable dates relating to the Minesweeping Squadron whilst in active service and afterwards. I am compiling an events page and would like as many dates as we can fit on, even if its not a military date, or just the day some bloke fell over board. To start us off the Naval Historical Society of Australia has kindly allowed us to use some of the information from their site. Also, what happened to the minesweepers after the Indonesian Conflict? Where did they all go prior to decommissioning? Any info on that would also be gratefully received. Thank You! We have a page on Facebook now. Membership is by approval only. ~ ~New Photos!~ From Fred Goddard, sparker on HMAS, Snipe Teal & Ibis, go here and here to see them~ ~ ~Obituary~ Bob Tudman passed away on the 23rd September 2008 at the age of 65. Bob was the 1st Cook when Ibis left to go to Confrontation. ~ The 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 some of the reunion photos very kindly contributed by Cliff Jamieson (jamo), and Jacquie Clarey ~ 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. ~ 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! ~ Latest Update 18th November 2008 email us at 16thminesweepingsquadaus@gmail.com 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 16thMMSwebmanager and expect to walk the plank not to mention the infringement of international copyright laws. Thank You. |
| Info Spot |
| Multiply Groups for 16th Minesweeping Squadron We have an online group, if you would like to join please go to: 16thMinesweeperSquadronAUS 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. |
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| 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 unofficial and not connected with 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. |
| 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. |
| HMAS Curlew Crew, Yamba 2004 |