HMAS Bingera

HMAS Bingera was an auxiliary anti-submarine vessel of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the Second World War. Bingera was built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton in 1935 for the Australasian Steam Navigation Company for the Queensland coastal trade.[1]

History
Name:	MV Bingera[1]
Owner:	Australasian Steam Navigation Company (1935-1948)
Port of registry:	Bundaberg, Australia (1935-1948)
Builder:	William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland
Yard number:	1279[2]
Launched:	1935
Identification:	UK Official Number: 109652 Code Letters: VLDZ
History
Australia
Name:	HMAS Bingera
Commissioned:	5 February 1940
Decommissioned:	August 1946
Fate:	Returned to owners
General characteristics
Tonnage:	922 gross tonnage[1]
Length:	115.4 ft (35 m)[1]
Beam:	22.1 ft (7 m)[1]
Depth:	12.1 ft (4 m)[1]
Propulsion:	1 x oil engine (J G Kincaid & Co Ltd, Greenock) 900 bhp (670 kW)

Commissioned into the RAN on 5 February 1940 and was employed in patrolling the East Coast of Australia. She was present during the Japanese midget submarine raid on Sydney Harbour on 30 May-1 June 1942 and rescued 12 men on a raft from the steamer Iron Chieftain on 4 June, sunk by Japanese submarine I-24, 27 miles east of Sydney on 3 June. She was decommissioned in August 1946 and returned to her owners.

Bingera was sold in February 1948 to Imperial Chemicals Industries of Australia and New Zealand and renamed Taranui. She was sold in 1963 to South Pacific Company, Suva, in 1971 to Cia de Naviera Louise SA, Panama and renamed Locolina. Sold in 1978 to Straits Chartering and renamed Kah Wah, before being renamed Pattana in 1978. She was deleted from Lloyds registry in 1988.

References

1. "Llyods Register 1943-44" (PDF). Plimsoll ShipData. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
2. "Bingera". Clyde built ships. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2012.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)