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during

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. The name was bestowed upon the group by

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consisted of five

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(RAN) destroyers. The five ships of the flotilla had been

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ships that had been built and served during the

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and transferred to the RAN in the 1930s. HMAS ''Waterhen'' was sunk in the Mediterranean in 1941, HMAS ''Vampire'' was sunk in the Indian Ocean in 1942, and HMAS ''Voyager'' was sunk near Timor in 1942. HMAS ''Stuart'' and HMAS ''Vendetta'' survived the war. The story of the ships in the flotilla, up to 1943, was recounted in the book ''Scrap-Iron Flotilla'' by John F. Moyes, who served as a Sub-Lieutenant RANVR on HMAS ''Voyager'' later in the war, and collected many stories from the crews. Moyes was on HMAS ''Voyager'' when she was sunk, but survived.

The flotilla

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"Scrap Iron Flotilla" march

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has been commemorated in a 2010

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, ''Scrap Iron Flotilla'', composed by

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Martyn Hancock of the

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's RANMedia YouTube channel, along with notes on the composition, in a posting entitled ''Scrap Iron Flotilla Theme'' from 29 March 2010. The opening bars of the march were influenced by the

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of the 1973

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References

External links

YouTube – Scrap Iron Flotilla Theme
History of the Royal Australian Navy Military history of Australia during World War II {{Australia-WWII-stub