HMAS Olive Cam

History
HMAS Olive Cam
Name:	Nodzu Olive Cam^[1]
Owner:	Cam & Sons Pty Ltd
Launched:	1920
History
Australia
Name:	Olive Cam
Commissioned:	6 October 1939
Decommissioned:	14 November 1945
General characteristics
Tonnage:	281 gross tonnage^[2]
Length:	128.5 ft (39 m)^[2]
Beam:	23.5 ft (7 m)^[2]
Depth:	12.6 ft (4 m)^[2]
Armament:	1 × 12-pounder gun 1 × 20mm Oerlikon cannon 1 × .303-inch Vickers machine gun

HMAS Olive Cam was an auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II. She was launched in 1920 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell at Beverley as Nodzu. The ship operated in Australian waters from 1929, and was requisitioned by the RAN on 3 September 1939. She was returned to her owners in 1946 before being wrecked near Green Cape Lighthouse, Eden, New South Wales on 2 November 1954 with the loss of three lives.^[3]

Operational history

Nodzu was purchased by Cam & Sons Pty Ltd and sailed to Sydney, Australia in 1929 and was renamed Olive Cam.^[2] In September 1939, Olive Cam was requisitioned by the RAN for use as an auxiliary and commissioned on 6 October 1939.

During the war, Olive Cam was based in Fremantle with Minesweeping Group 66 and operated along the West Australian coastline. She was part of the search for HMAS Sydney which was lost on 19 November 1941. She was returned to her owners in 1946.

On 2 November 1954, she was wrecked 37°09′04″S 150°00′26″E / 37.151107°S 150.007120°E / -37.151107; 150.007120Coordinates: 37°09′04″S 150°00′26″E / 37.151107°S 150.007120°E / -37.151107; 150.007120 near Green Cape Lighthouse, Eden, New South Wales, causing the deaths of three of her crewmen.

Citations

↑ "Details of the Ship". Plimsoll ShipData. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
1 2 3 4 5 "Llyods Reigister" (PDF). Plimsoll ShipData. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
↑ "The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Thursday, 4 November 1954, p.1.". Retrieved 9 August 2010.

References

http://www.navyhistory.org.au/06-october-1939/

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1954

Shipwrecks	13 Feb: Seablue 30 Mar: Empire Windrush 30 May: Pajtás 27 Jun: Springfjord 22 Sep: Nordstjernen 26 Sep: Tōya Maru 25 Oct: Cervia 26 Oct: Faidherbe 2 Nov: Olive Cam 14 Nov: ROCS Tai Ping

Other incidents	17 Jan: RFA Wave Victor 1 Mar: USS Bairoko, Daigo Fukuryū Maru 25 May: HMS Curzon 26 May: USS Bennington 27 Jul: Cressington Court 26 Sep: Eastern 15 Dec: HMS Talent 18 Dec: Hispania

1953 1955

Shipwrecks and scuttled vessels of New South Wales

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Richmond–Tweed	Adventure Agnes Enterprize Tassie III HMAS Waree SS Wollongbar I

Mid North Coast	Abbey Ability Absalom Acielle Admiral Gifford Adonis Advance Agnes Irving Edwin Fairwind SS Fingal Fitzroy Jane Kooroongaba Titan Crane Trial SS Wollongbar II

Hunter	Ability Acme Active (1850) Active (1877) Ada Ada and Ethel Adelaide Adolphe Advance Agnes Alhambra Bee The Bluebell Collision SS Catterthun SS Cawarra Contest Dundee Eleanor Lancaster Elizabeth Henrietta (1816) Estramina Excalibur Francis Governor Hunter Governor King Grecian Hope HMAS K9 Lindus Merksworth TSS Maianbar Norfolk SS Oakland Recovery MV Sygna Wendouree USS WST-1

Central Coast	Adelaide Advance SS Allenwood SS Bonnie Dundee Hazard Nimbin HMAS Paterson

Northern Sydney	Adelaide Aenid Argument Charlotte Narara HMAS Swan Tuncurry Whale Windsor

Sydney Eastern Suburbs	Agnes Colonist Dunbar Edward Lombe HMAS Goolgwai Greycliffe disaster PS Herald Hereward SS Iron Chieftain Iserbrook Itata HMAS Karangi Kate HMAS Kuttabul Martha Three Bees William Cossar HMAS Woomera

Southern Sydney	Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya

Illawarra	Adele Adolphus Agnes Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen of Nations Shockwave

Shoalhaven	Advance Aeolus Agnes Hive Koraaga Nancy HMAS Voyager Wandra

Far South Coast	George Iron Knight Olive Cam

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