HMAS Tarakan (L3017) [SEP] vessel class
HMAS Tarakan (L3017)
HMAS "Tarakan" (L3017) was a Mark III Tank Landing Ship, or LST(3), that served in the Royal Navy (RN) during 1945 and 1946 and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1946 until 1954.
History.
The ship was laid down on 7 April 1944 for the RN by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company at Hebburn-on-Tyne in England, launched on 28 November 1944 as LST 3017, and completed at Hendon Dockyard in Sutherland
Tarakan (disambiguation)
Tarakan is an island city in North Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Tarakan may also refer to:
- Mount Tarakan, a volcano in the Halmahera islands
- Battle of Tarakan (1942), a battle in World War II
- Battle of Tarakan (1945), a battle in World War II
- HMAS Tarakan (L 129), a heavy landing craft commissioned in 1973
- HMAS Tarakan (L3017), a tank landing ship commissioned in 1946
See also.