IRAQ BOUND
Manoora to the Gulf for sealift

With calls of “wave to Daddy and throw him a kiss”, some 400 family members and friends farewelled HMAS Manoora when she sailed for The Gulf.

The amphibious transport with 260 sailors and soldiers on board under the command of CMDR Martin Brooker, cast off from the Oil Wharf at Fleet Base East on May 12.

Volume 46, No. 08
May 22, 2003

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