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MV Brisbane Star was a British refrigerated cargo liner. She was built by Cammell Laird and Co in 1936–37 as one of Blue Star Line 's Imperial Star -class ships, designed to ship frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom .
Brisbane's defences were progressively strengthened during WW2, in line with Brisbane's increasing strategic significance to the war effort. In particular, by 1943, Brisbane was a major submarine base. [5] A total of 89 submarines were dry docked for repairs in Brisbane over a three-year period.
HMAS Diamantina, a River Class frigate is in the South Brisbane Dry Dock (Graving Dock), and on board, visitors can view the museum's collection of Australian Naval memorabilia. Another WW2 vessel located at the museum is the Torres Strait type of pearling lugger , "Penguin", which was used by the Americans during WW2, along with the dinghy ...
Moreton Bay is generally shallow and sandy, though a substantive channel is maintained to allow access to the Port of Brisbane at Fisherman Islands at the mouth of the Brisbane River, for international shipping. Channels in the south of the bay are only rarely deep. [25] Waves penetrate a small way into the bay at its four southern passages. [25]
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In 1848–9, she was the first of three ships chartered by the Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang to bring free immigrants to Brisbane, Australia, arriving on 21 January 1849. [4] Captained by John Christmas, with the medical superintendent Henry Challinor, she departed Gravesend on 14 September 1848 and arrived at Moreton Bay on 21 January 1849. [5] [6 ...
Important military shipping movements were escorted from the start of the war, but convoys were not instituted in Australian waters until June 1942. [5] The Australian naval authorities did, however, close ports to shipping at various times following real or suspected sightings of enemy warships or mines prior to June 1942. [6]
Three ships and a naval base of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Brisbane after Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland. HMAS Brisbane (1915), a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1915 and decommissioned in 1935; HMAS Brisbane (naval base), a naval base operated in Brisbane between 1940 and 1942