Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/December 2

The first HMAS Manoora was a motor vessel laid down for the Adelaide Steamship Company by Alex Stephen and Son at Govan in Scotland in July 1934, launched on 25 October 1935 and completed in 1935. The ship entered service on the Cairns to Fremantle run but was requisitioned by the Navy on 11 October 1939, outfitted at Sydney for service as an armed merchant cruiser and commissioned on 12 December 1939. The ship arrived in Sydney on 30 September 1942 and was converted to a Landing Ship, Infantry (LSI) by 2 February 1943. HMAS Manoora paid off on 6 December 1947 and was returned to her owners on 31 August 1949. She was sold to an Indonesian company in 1961 and renamed Albulombo. The ship was finally sold for scrap to a Japanese firm in 1972.