LargeSlowTarget
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Your input is highly appreciated - until today I did not even realize that RAN dates and locations of stock and even DBB were incorrect.
However, I found a few glitches though most of the data looks ok.
Mmh, until now I have had blind faith in the data you have provided... 
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ORIGINAL: JeffK
3236 Hobart 411206 Aden 411206 Hobart
http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-06CL-Hobart.htm#convoy has CL Hobart in the Med on 411206:
1941 December
7th - Escorted Supply Ship HMS BRECONSHIRE from Malta to Alexandria.
9th - Under air attack at Tobruk with HM Sloops FLAMINGO and YARRA (RAN).
10th - Recalled to rejoin RAN after Japan entered war and took passage to Colombo.
18th - Diverted to carry out patrol in Maldives area following reports of unrest.
24th - Joined escort for military convoy BM9A with HM Cruisers DURBAN and DRAGON for passage to Singapore from Bombay.
1 9 4 2 January
Transferred to ABDA Command for convoy defence.
3rd - Arrived at Singapore with convoy BM9A
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ORIGINAL: JeffK
3729 Nepal 420812 Cape Town 420103 Aden
Not possible:
1 9 4 2
May
Contractors trials
11th - Commissioned for service by Royal Australian Navy in 7th Destroyer Flotilla.
29th - Build completion and commenced Acceptance Trials
June
On completion of trials and storing took passage to Scapa Flow to work-up with ships of Home Fleet.
Passage to Clyde for rectification of defects prior to operational service.
July
Under repair in commercial shipyard. Nominated as part of escort for military convoy during passage to Indian Ocean.
17th - Joined Convoy WS21P in Clyde with HM Cruiser ORION and Dutch destroyer TJERK HIDDES (Ex HMS NONPAREIL) as Ocean Escort during passage to Freetown. (Note: Both destroyers were taking passage to join 7th Destroyer Flotilla which was also to include sister ships HMAS NIZAM, NAPIER and NORMAN.)
27th - Arrived at Freetown with WS21P.
August
2nd - Sailed with same ships as Ocean Escort for WS21P on departure from Freetown.
4th - Continued as Ocean escort after mercantiles from US Convoy AS4 joined. (Note: Convoy AS4 was escorted by US Navy warships and was made up of ships carrying supplies to Alexandria via Cape of Good Hope.)
12th - Arrived at Cape Town and detached from WS21P.
http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-45N-Nepal-ex-Norseman.htm#convoy
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ORIGINAL: JeffK
4414 Lismore 420115 Trincomalee 421216 Aden
I think she should start at Aden on 411206 or at Colombo end of Dec 41.
She also must get a withdrawal date and return delay [ditto Ipswich and the missing ships Gawler and Maryborough].
"They [Lismore and Bathurst - LST] arrived at Colombo on 3 June. Shortly afterwards the ships sailed to take up duty with the Red Sea Force. Thereafter, until mid December 1941, Lismore was employed on East African coastal patrol duty which included, from August to December 1941, patrols in the Gulf of Tadjoura as a unit of the forces employed in maintaining a blockade of French Somaliland.
On 16 December 1941 Lismore detached from the Red Sea Force and proceeded for Colombo to join the Eastern Fleet for Indian Ocean escort duty. From January 1942 to April 1943 Lismore served as an escort vessel for Indian Ocean convoys including duty in the Persian Gulf area in the second half of 1942.
On 3 May 1943 she arrived at Aden en route for the Mediterranean where with her sister ships HMA Ships Gawler, Ipswich and Maryborough, she formed the 21st Minesweeping Flotilla. Her service in the Mediterranean, however, was mainly confined to escort duty. She once, in August 1943, proceeded into the Atlantic to form part of the escort of an Alexandria bound convoy. Despite numerous air attacks in the Mediterranean en route to the Atlantic the ship escaped damage.
On 25 September 1943 Lismore departed Suez for Kilindini to rejoin the Eastern Fleet for further Indian Ocean escort duty. For the following fifteen months she was almost constantly at sea protecting convoys moving between India and Africa.
On 3 December 1944 Lismore arrived at Fremantle, her first call at an Australian port since leaving Darwin for Singapore on 20 March 1941. Her absence from Australia was longer than that of any other Royal Australian Navy ship of World War II."
http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-lismore
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4418 Rockhampton 420915 Melbourne 420121 Melbourne
"Rockhampton commissioned at Maryborough on 21 January 1942 under the command of Lieutenant Robert T. Salmon )."
http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-rockhampton
Btw, the commanding officers of most if not all corvettes are wrong in the game - AE has "Russ, V.J." as CO of Rockhampton for example. But I for my part will not go that far in my quest for historical accuracy...
Additional missing ship: Maryborough 411206 Singapore
< Message edited by LargeSlowTarget -- 12/17/2012 2:31:10 PM >
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RE: AE Naval and OOB Issues - 
) But that is for the Mod subforum as well.
Ciao, JWE
. Just to avoid any misunderstandings, I should underline the fact that I have been searching for RAN ships, found the Wikipedia list, noticed a ship called "Lolita" and then googled for her - and not the other way round. And I used the search term "HMAS Lolita" to avoid potentially distracting results 
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