HMAS ''Toorie'' was an auxiliary minesweeper operated by the

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(RAN) during

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. Built in 1925 by the Walsh Island Dockyard and Engineering Works, Newcastle for Dorman Long, Sydney as ''Sir Arthur Dorman''. She was sold in 1928 to the Adelaide Steamship Company ownership and renamed ''Toorie''. She was utilised along the Queensland coast as a sugar lighter between shore to larger vessels offshore. ''Toorie'' requisitioned by the RAN in late 1940 and commissioned on 14 January 1941 as an auxiliary minesweeper. She was decommissioned in January 1943 and returned to her owners after reconversion work.

Fate

''Toorie'' was sold in 1956 and scrapped in Hong Kong.

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1925 ships Ships built in New South Wales Auxiliary ships of the Royal Australian Navy Minesweepers of the Royal Australian Navy Iron and steel steamships of Australia Coastal trading vessels of Australia {{Australia-mil-ship-stub