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HMAS ''Kanimbla'' was a passenger ship converted for use as an armed merchant cruiser and landing ship infantry during World War II. Built during the mid-1930s as the passenger liner MV ''Kanimbla'' for McIlwraith McEachern Limited, the ship operated in Australian waters until 1939, when she was requisitioned for military service, converted into an armed merchant cruiser, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Kanimbla''. Initially used to board and take control of merchant vessels belonging to Occupied Europe and operating in Asian waters, ''Kanimbla'' led the raid to capture the Iranian port of Bandar Shahpur in August 1941, and was present during the Japanese submarine attack on Sydney Harbour in 1942. In 1943, the ship was converted into a Landing Ship Infantry, transferred to the Royal Australian Navy, and operated throughout the South West Pacific Theatre until the end of the war. ''Kanimbla'' was decommissioned and returned to her commercial owners in 1950. In 1961, she was sold to the Pacific Transport Company and renamed ''Oriental Queen''. The ship operated as a liner throughout the Pacific and to Japan until 1973, when she was broken up for scrap. ==Construction== The ship was laid down as motor vessel (MV) ''Kanimbla'' for McIlwraith McEachern Limited by Harland and Wolff Limited at Belfast in Northern Ireland.〔 She was launched on 15 December 1935 and completed in 1936.〔Bastock, ''Australia's Ships of War'', pp. 215-6〕 The ship was named for the Kanimbla Valley, west of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMAS Kanimbla (C78)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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