HMAS River Snake [SEP] vessel class
HMAS River Snake
HMAS "River Snake" was a Snake-class junk built for the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. She was launched in 1945 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 19 February 1945. She was used by the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) and was paid off on 2 November 1945, before being handed over to the British Civil Administration in Borneo.
Operation Suncharlie.
During Operation Suncharlie SRD operatives were deployed from HMAS "River Snake", an Australian built Country Craft
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