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The Scrap iron flotilla was an Australian destroyer group that operated in the Mediterranean and Pacific during World War II. The name Scrap iron flotilla was bestowed upon the group by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The flotilla consisted of 5 Royal Australian Navy Destroyers, the five ships of the flotilla were slow, old and built to fight in the First World War. Of the five destroyers only one was sunk, HMAS Waterhen.
[edit] To the Mediterranean
[edit] Mediterranean Operations
[edit] Tobruk Ferry Service
[edit] War in East
[edit] The Flotilla