| Career (Australia) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Yandra (1928-1959) |
| Namesake: | Aboriginal: "All alike" |
| Owner: | Coast Steamships, Adelaide |
| Builder: | Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen |
| Launched: | 1928 |
| Fate: | Ran aground 1959 and written off |
| Career (Australia) | |
| Name: | HMAS Yandra (1940-1946) |
| Acquired: | June 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 22 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 1946 |
| Fate: | Returned to owners |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Tug |
| Displacement: | 990 tons |
| Length: | 211.1 feet (64.3 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 35.2 feet (10.7 m) |
| Draught: | 11.9 feet (3.6 m) |
HMAS Yandra was a 990 ton coastal steamer built by Burmeister and Wain, Copenhagen in 1928 as Yandra for Coast Steamships, Adelaide. She was requisitioned by the Royal Australia Navy in June 1940 during the Second World War for conversion to a minesweeper and anti-submarine vessel and was commissioned on 22 September 1940 and named HMAS Yandra.
Yandra challenged a ship off Rottnest Island, Western Australia on 5 October during the night and was given a false name Salland, from Calcutta. The ship never appeared in port as expected and caused naval intelligence some concern that this vessel could have been the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, it was dismissed as a misreading of the morse code. Yandra picked up 72 German survivors of the Kormoran on 27 November, while searching for HMAS Sydney.
Transferred to Sydney, Yandra was patroling off the harbour boom gate on 31 May 1942, when a Japanese midget submarine (later identified as M-27) got entangled in the boom net. She later sighted a midget submarine (later identified as M-21) in the Harbour. Yandra and Sea Mist dropped depth charges over the site, with Yandra ramming the midget submarine on the bows. Yandra and Sea Mist unfortunately were both disabled by their own depth charges. Repaired Yandra patrolled on both the East and West coasts, and New Guinea.
She was returned to her owners in 1946 and returned to coastal cargo work.
Yandra ran aground during dense fog and was on Neptune Island in the Spencer Gulf on 25 January 1959.[2] There was no loss of life, and she was written off.