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Second Fraser Ministry
The Second Fraser Ministry was the fifty-second Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 22 December 1975 to 20 December 1977.
Don Chipp and Senator Tom Drake-Brockman had been in Fraser's first Ministry as they had been Shadow Ministers at the time of the Dismissal, but after a massive electoral victory he now had other people in mind. Rather than having their commissions terminated, an embarrassing position for a new Prime Minister to take so early into his term, he resigned as Prime Minister on
the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Her port of registry was London. The United Kingdom Official Number 180843 and Code Letters GDPV were allocated. She was operated under the management of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co Ltd.
In November 1946, "Empire Fraser" transported a cargo of raw silk from Tokyo, Japan to the United Kingdom. This was the first silk imported into the United Kingdom after the end of the Second World War. "Empire Fraser" was sold to the Indo-China Steam Navigation