Classic Boat Club of Western Australia
Designer Lars Halvorsen Builder Halvorsen Launched 1937, Sydney Length 12.2m, 40ft
Bridge deck motor cruiser 40ft. Carvel planked. 10 mph. Drafts 4' 2" aft, 2' 6" forward. 6 berths. Engine room 10' long. 4 portlights in each side of RFD, Tumblehome sides at stern. Said to have been last vessel designed by Lars Halvorsen before his death on 5 October 1936.
- 1936 David Theodore Nicholson commissioned Lars Halvorsen to build Mischief.
- 1937/01 completed.
- 1937/02/25 registered, Sydney. WW2 listed on register of No.2/3 Division, Volunteer Coastal Patrol, seagoing.
- 1941/11 commenced part time with Naval Auxiliary Patrol (NAP).
- 1942/11/14 requisitioned to work full time with NAP, armament: 1x .303 Vickers machine gun forward, 2x Mk.VII depth
charges, 6x midget depth charges.
- 1943/01/15 (or 18) commissioned, tender to shore bases HMAS Rushcutter & HMAS Penguin.
- 1943/02 sent to patrol entrance to Botany Bay to protect the Bunnerong Power station from anticipated attack by Japanese
midget submarines, with Marlean (qv), sighted and hunted submarine off entrance 02/23.
- 1944/06/30 removed from service.
- 1945/10/27 sold by auction at Sydney.