The Krait was a Japanese fishing boat captured by the Royal Australian Navy before the fall of Singapore in 1942. In September 1943 it was used for Operation Jaywick with a crew of Z Special Unit commandos disguised as local fisherman. The Krait’s Captain was Lieutenant Hubert Edward (Ted) Carse, whose father was a former Corryong teacher and mother one of the local Carmody family. This crew sailed the boat 4500km back to Singapore and used limpet mines to sink two Japanese ships and damage another five.

The Krait was a symbol of hope for the prisoners of Changi and when Tom Mitchell was leaving Singapore after 3½ years as a POW he took the name off the ship and brought it back with him to Australia where it was displayed in the Scout Hall until it was given to the Corryong Museum in 1977. A model of the ship is displayed in the museum.

The ship itself, now fully restored, has been inducted into the Royal Australian Navy Hall of Fame and is now on display at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney.