After five years in reserve , '' Hawkesbury '' was recommissioned on 14 May 1952 . From late July she conducted operations in support of the British atomic bomb test in the Montebello Islands off Western Australia . She returned to Sydney in January 1953 . For the next two years she undertook routine patrols and training exercises off the Australian and New Guinean coasts , completing two patrols of Australian waters in the South-West Pacific area
British atomic bomb test
Operation Hurricane
HMAS Hawkesbury (K363)