HMAS Tiger Snake
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:HMAS Tiger Snake.jpg |Ship caption=HMAS Tiger Snake in April 1945 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Australia |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Australia|naval-1913}} |Ship name=Tiger Snake |Ship namesake= |Ship builder=J.J. Savage and Sons, Williamstown |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=1945 |Ship completed= |Ship in service=22 August 1945 |Ship out of service=3 November 1945 |Ship struck= |Ship registry= |Ship fate= |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass2|Snake|junk|0}} junk |Ship type= |Ship tonnage=80 tons (gross) |Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|66|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|17|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship depth={{convert|7.6|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship power=Gray Marine 64 YTL diesel, single screw, {{convert|300|hp|lk=in|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion= |Ship speed={{convert|9|kn}} |Ship range={{convert|500|nmi|km mi|abbr=on}} |Ship endurance= |Ship capacity=20 tons of cargo |Ship complement=9 |Ship armament=Two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, three or four M2 Browning machine guns or Bren Guns |Ship notes= }} |
HMAS Tiger Snake was a {{sclass2|Snake|junk|0}} junk built for the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. She was launched in 1945 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 22 August 1945 and was used by the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD).{{sfn|Straczek|1996|p=}}
Operations
On 14 July 1945, HMAS Tiger Snake transported D Company of the 2/17th Battalion on a patrol of the Baram River, Borneo.{{sfn|2/17 Battalion History Committee|1998|pp=313–314}} She was paid off on 3 November 1945, before being handed over to the British Civil Administration in Borneo.{{sfn|Straczek|1996|p=}}
Between 13 and 23 August 1945, HMAS Tiger Snake, carrying SRD operatives of Operation Semut IVB sailed out of Labuan, Sarawak, and moored near the mouth of the Mukah River. The operative leader, Lieutenant Rowan Waddy, and Lieutenant Ron Hoey, using a Hoehn military folboat (collapsible kayak) paddled along the Mukah to engage, with the help of local natives, any remaining hostile Japanese groups. On the way they were threatened by a crocodile the length of the folboat, but managed to deal with it. After their mission was accomplished they safely returned to Tiger Snake.{{sfn|Hoehn|2011|p=71}}
Notes
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References
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- {{cite book|author=2/17 Battalion History Committee|title=What We Have We Hold: A History of the 2/17 Australian Infantry Battalion, 1940–1945|year=1998|orig-year=1990|edition=Revised|publisher=Australian Military History Publications|location=Loftus, New South Wales |isbn=1-876439-36-X}}
- {{cite book|last=Hoehn|first=John|title=Commando Kayak: The Role of the Folboat in the Pacific War | year=2011 |publisher=Hirsch |location=Zurich, Switzerland |url=http://hirschbooks.net/|isbn=978-3-033-01717-7}}
- {{cite book|last=Straczek|first=J.H.|year=1996|title=Royal Australian Navy: A-Z Ships, Aircraft and Shore Establishments|publisher=Navy Public Affairs|location=Sydney|isbn=1876043784}}
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Further reading
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- {{cite book|title=Corvettes. Australia's Naval Patrol Forces. Photofile No. 10|publisher=Topmill|location=Marrickville|date=2001|isbn=1-876860-21-9}}
- {{cite book|last=Lind|first=Lewis James| title=Fair Winds to Australia: 200 Years of Sail on the Australia Station|year=1988 |publisher=Reed |isbn=0730102165}}
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