Australian Army ship John Monash (AS 3051) explained

John Monash (AS 3051) was a cargo ship operated by the Australian Army between 1965 and 1975.

Service history

John Monash was built for the Associated Steamships Co. and was completed in 1955. She was purchased by the Australian Army in 1965 to provide a means of transporting cargo which was unsuitable for the Army's four Landing Ship Medium and was assigned to the 32nd Small Ship Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers.^[1] She was also used as a training ship and to supply Army units deployed in South Vietnam. In the later role she completed eleven voyages to South Vietnam between 1965 and 1972.^[2] The ship was sold in 1975 to a foreign company.

References

• Book: Gillett, Ross. Australian and New Zealand Warships Since 1946. 1988. Child & Associates. Brookvale. 0-86777-219-0.
• Book: Wilson, EJ. Horsley KW. van der Hoek R. Cancer Incidence in Australian Vietnam Veterans Study 2005. Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2005. Canberra. 2005. 1-920720-39-1. 2009-04-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20090516040521/http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat/2006/vietnam_health_studies/vvcis/. 2009-05-16. dead.

Notes and References

1. Wilson et al (2005), p. 199
2. Wilson et al (2005), p. 23