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	HMAS Australia (1927) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMAS Australia, launched in 1927, was a County-class heavy cruiser in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
		Australia damaged the Vichy French destroyer L'Audacieux, which as a result was beached on September 23-24.
		On October 21, 1944, in the lead-up to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb, in the first-ever kamikaze attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Australia_(1927) (553 words)

	HMAS Australia; a heavy cruiser in WW2
		On 7 August 1942 AUSTRALIA led the escort of nine transports and six store ships containing the forces for the landing at Guadalcanal, and remained in the area until the end of August 1942, during which period she was subject with the remainder of the forces, to frequent heavy air attacks.
		From November 1943 to September 1944, AUSTRALIA was involved in bombarding enemy held islands of the South West Pacific, prior to allied assaults, from Cape Gloucester in the New Britain area to Morotai in the N. On 21 October 1944 after bombardments in Leyte Gulf (Philippines) AUSTRALIA was hit by a Japanese suicide plane.
		AUSTRALIA spent the last five years of her active commission as a training cruiser, visiting New Zealand on 3 occasions with the Australian Squadron from 24 February 31 March 1950, mid September to 6 October 1952, and for a brief visit in October 19530.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/hmas_australia.htm (1796 words)

	Australian Military Units
		Australia had arrived in Fremantle on 28 May 1919 and after almost four years overseas her crew were expecting several day's leave in their first home port of call.
		When Australia began to make preparations to sail on the morning of 1 June, to comply with a busy schedule of "welcome home" visits, eighty to one hundred of her crew assembled on the quarterdeck requesting that the ship's departure be delayed to allow further leave ashore.
		Australia's petty officers were ordered to the boiler room to stoke the ship, and she eventually left port only one hour late.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_141.asp (241 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMAS Australia of the Kent class
		In September 1940, HMAS Australia was called upon to relieve the cruiser HMS Fiji after that ship had been damaged by torpedo from U-32 whilst escorting a Dakar bound convoy, she narrowly missed being torpedoed herself on the 8th, by U-56, but because of a malfunctioning torpedo, she escaped.
		HMAS Australia inflicted heavy shell hits on the large French destroyer L’Audacieux setting her on fire, her crew beached the vessel.
		In November, the Australian cruiser HMAS Shropshire joined HMAS Australia and was temporarily transferred from Milme Bay to the New Hebrides to reinforce the South Pacific forces.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1173.html (1620 words)

	HMAS Australia 2 - Royal Australian Navy History
		HMAS AUSTRALIA was one of two 10,000 ton County Class heavy cruisers ordered by the Australian Government as part of a five year naval development program begun in 1924 and completed in 1929.
		From November 1943 to September 1944, AUSTRALIA was involved in bombarding enemy held islands in the South West Pacific, prior to allied assaults, from Cape Gloucester in the New Britain area to Morotai in the Netherlands East Indies.
		AUSTRALIA spent the last five years of her active commission as a training cruiser, visiting New Zealand on three occasions with the Australian Squadron, from 24 February to 31 March 1950, mid September to 6 October 1952, and a brief visit in October 1953.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/australia2.htm (1950 words)

	1924 HMAS Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Australia would have required modernisation, involving at the minimum: new turbines and boilers to increase her speed and reduce weight, improved fire control systems, increased armour protection, main armament modification, increased secondary and anti-aircraft armament, and other minor work.
		Australia was not fit to take its place in the line of battle, and it could validly be argued that 12” armed vessels such as Australia should be re-classified as armoured cruisers and therefore exempted from the treaty tonnage limitations.
		Australia would then have been able to put a strong case that, while bound by the strictures of the treaty with regard to tonnage limitations on the British empire, it was not required to sacrifice its own ship as part of that total.
	www.eurekatimes.net /Australian%20Defence/Royal-Australian-Navy/a_loss_more_symbolic_than_materi.htm (1917 words)

	HMAS Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Australia paid off on 12 December 1921 and, in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, was sunk with her main armament 24 miles from Sydney on 12 April 1924.
		The second HMAS Australia was a County class cruiser laid down by John Brown and Company of Clydebank at Glasgow in Scotland on 26 August 1925,launched on 17 March 1927 and commissioned on 24 April 1928.
		HMAS Australia paidoff for disposal on 31 August 1954 and soldfor scrap to the British Iron and Steel Corporation (Salvage) on 25 January 1955.
	www.therfcc.org /hmas-australia-171994.html (145 words)

	HMAS AUSTRALIA
		Australia's early war service reflects confused thinking by the Admiralty at that time, and ultimately led to the Official Historian's statement that she "never saw a battle or fired a gun in action".
		Australia and her consorts returned to the mundane routine of exercises, patrols, escorting convoys and even covering mine-laying operations until the end of the war.
		To Australia fell the honour of leading the port column of the Grand Fleet at the surrender of the High Seas Fleet on 21 November 1918.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/hmasaust.htm (1262 words)

	HMAS Australia (1927) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Australia, launched in 1927, was a (Click link for more info and facts about County-class) County-class (Click link for more info and facts about heavy cruiser) heavy cruiser in the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Australian Navy) Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
		Australia damaged the (Click link for more info and facts about Vichy French) Vichy French (A person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to) destroyer L'Audacieux, which as a result was beached on September 23-24.
		On October 25, the Australia was hit again and was forced to retire to the (A volcanic island republic in Melanesia; independent since 1980) New Hebrides for repairs.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hmas_australia_(1927)3.htm (453 words)

	Surviving kamikaze - FeaturesNational - www.theage.com.au
		HMAS Australia, the flagship of the Royal Australian Navy, was the first in the fleet to be hit, thus writing a new chapter in warfare at sea involving suicide missions.
		HMAS Australia had fought in the North Atlantic campaign, West Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Coral Sea.
		HMAS Australia survived, but carried with her the dubious distinction of having been one of the most "kamikazied" ships in the allied fleet.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/04/22/1082616264684.html (1530 words)

	Battlecruiser HMAS Australia by Vince Fazio
		More than a match both in armament and speed for Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the prescence of HMAS Australia was enough to force von Spee to abandon the German Pacific possessions and head for South America in order to avoid her once Japan also entered the war on the side of the Allies.
		December 1914 saw HMAS Australia depart Pacific waters to serve with the Home Fleet as the defeat of von Spee at the Falklands gave the Admiralty the opportunity to confine the Kreigsmarine to the North Sea and North Atlantic.
		HMAS Australia also became the first aircraft carrying ship in the RAN; using a platform built over the guns, aircraft were successfully launched from the ship.
	www.smmlonline.com /reviews/books/australia.html (480 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMAS Australia (1911)
		HMAS Australia was an Indefatigable class battlecruiser laid down by John Brown and Company of Clydebank at Glasgow in Scotland on 26 June 1910, launched on 25 October 1911 by Lady Reid, wife of Sir George Reid, the Australian High Commissioner in London and former Prime Minister.
		She was completed and commissioned at Portsmouth on 21 June 1913 and sailed for Australia on 21 July 1913 and became the Australian flagship.
		Australia paid off on 12 December 1921 and, in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, was sunk with her main armament 24 miles from Sydney on 12 April 1924.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMAS-Australia-(1911) (193 words)

	HAMID RUTU and OMAR LADJILU v. ROMOLO PIETRO DALLA COSTANos. JA71 and JA75 of 1996Number of pages - 7Criminal law
		HMAS Gawler departed Ashmore Reef for passage to Darwin with the appellants and the six Sri Lankans on board.
		It was further argued that for the Sri Lankans to have been taken into Australia on board HMAS Gawler in the manner in which they were taken was not in contravention of the Act.
		To restrict the meaning of the sub-section to apply only to those persons within Australia who are involved in the process of bringing a non-citizen to Australia does not accord with the clear wording and intention of s233, nor does it accord with the overall objectives of the Act.
	www.nt.gov.au /ntsc/doc/sentencing_remarks/0/97/0/NS000760.htm (3157 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA WW2 Cruiser
		H.M.A.S. Possibly the ship with the most colourful World War II history was HMAS Australia, fondly known as "The Aussie".
		Bombers of the luftwaffe tried in vain to sink her whilst she was berthed alongside in Liverpool during the period when the city suffered its worst blitz.
		HMAS Australia was needed badly by the R.A.N for she was the last surviving seaworthy member of the country's heavy cruiser fleet the rest having been sunk and Hobart badly damaged.
	www.gunplot.net /aussie/hmasaussie.html (1076 words)

	Royal Australian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Royal Australian Navy (or RAN) is the navy of Australia and part of the Australian Defence Force.
		In 1909 Creswell represented Australia at the Imperial Conferences, convened to settle the question of naval defences, and won his campaign for an Australian Navy.
		The first Australian warship, the destroyer HMAS Parramatta, was launched at Govan in Scotland on Wednesday 9 February 1910 and its sister ship HMAS Yarra, was launched at Dumbarton in Scotland on Saturday 9 April 1910.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Royal_Australian_Navy (952 words)

	ABC Western Australia » Defence Forces Contingent - Navy
		The ex HMAS Sydney (WA) Association are mainly Western Australian sailors that served in the Royal Australian Navy's cruiser HMAS Sydney from her commissioning in 1935, in her service in Australian waters, and during her service in the Mediterranean, during 1940/1941.
		HMAS Bataan was originally to be called the Tribal class destroyer Kurnai but in honour of the battle for Bataan Island being waged, was renamed HMAS Bataan.
		She was in the task force when the HMAS Australia was hit by the kamakazies (Japanese fighter planes).
	www.abc.net.au /wa/anzac/sea.htm (3355 words)

	ModelWarships reveiw
		The HMAS Australia was a Kent Class Heavy Cruiser constructed in 1928 in Glasgow, Scotland.
		Together with her sister ship the HMAS Canberra they were the pride of the Australian Navy.
		Australia even operated in the North Atlantic in 1940 where she was damaged by shells from the French cruisers Georges Leygues and Montcalm during the attack on Dakar.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/hmas/australia/700-com/australia.html (708 words)

	HMAS Stirling, Fleet Base West, Garden Island
		HMAS Stirling is Australia's largest Fleet Base, capable of supporting half the fleet.
		HMAS Stirling naval base in Cockburn Sound is located 15 kilometers from Fremantle, a densely populated suburb near the state capital Perth.
		HMAS Stirling is also the Headquarters of the Australian Submarine Squadron with all submarine training being carried out in the Navy's large Submarine Systems and Training Centre and the associated seven storey Escape Training Facility on the island.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/stirling.htm (1102 words)

	Australian Cruisers
		HMAS Canberra, along with her sister ship, HMAS Australia, HMAS Canberra were built for the Australian navy.
		During the Battle at Savo island HMAS Canberra was hit by over twenty 8-inch to 4.7-inch shells which completely disabled her and was finally abandoned 5 hours later when she was listing some 30% and with fires which were burning out of control she was eventually scuttled 2 hours later.
		HMAS Australia a Kent class cruiser built by John Brown and launched 17th March 1927.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /australian_cruisers.htm (853 words)

	The Loss of HMAS Sydney
		In 1939, the waters around the continent of Australia were quiet while most of the early action of WWII was taking place in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
		HMAS PERTH was already under the control of the Admiralty and that four destroyers were already on loan from the Royal Navy.
		HMAS ADELAIDE was to act as escort from Port Jackson, and escort the ZEALANDIA as far as King George Sound south of Albany.
	members.iinet.net.au /~gduncan/HMASSydney/HMASSydney-1.html (4557 words)

	CDNN :: Deep Mystery - Finding the HMAS Sydney
		Mearns had this decoded by Peter Hore, a former Royal Navy captain, linguist and author of HMAS Sydney II: The Cruiser and the controversy in the archives of the United Kingdom.
		"Australia's HMAS Sydney is like the Hood, the pride of a nation's naval fleet which took more sailors to a watery grave than any other single shipwreck," he says.
		Captain Joseph Burnett, who was in command of HMAS Sydney when she was lost during an engagement with the German raider Kormoran.
	www.cdnn.info /news/industry/i050228.html (1352 words)

	Australian Navy Ships--HMAS Australia (1928-1955)
		HMAS Australia, a 9850-ton heavy cruiser of the British Kent class, was built at Glasgow, Scotland.
		Australia later participated in the Leyte invasion in October 1944 and the landings at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945.
		HMAS Australia was sold for scrapping in January 1955.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/austral/aussh-ag/austr2.htm (557 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot Mutiny In The RAN
		HMAS Australia, along with most of the Australian fleet were in European waters when the Great War ended on November 11 1918.
		Australia sailed from Portsmouth on 23 April 1919 and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 28 May. The return to Australia was a very low key event.
		Later in June, five seamen were charged with partaking in a mutiny and were court martialed onboard HMAS Encounter in Sydney Harbour.
	www.gunplot.net /mutiny/mutiny.html (381 words)

	HMAS Australia (1912-1924)
		On completion she sailed for Australia and, on 4 October 1913, led the cruisers and destroyers of the fleet unit into Sydney Harbour to public acclaim.
		With the outbreak of the First World War, Australia became the flagship of the force that captured the German colonies in the southern Pacific.
		Australia carried out experimental aircraft operations in 1918 and led the port column of the Grand Fleet at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/australia.htm (305 words)

	HMAS Australia 1 - Royal Australian Navy History
		HMAS AUSTRALIA commissioned at Portsmouth, England, on 21 June 1913 under the command of Captain Stephen H. Radcliffe RN.
		In March 1918 AUSTRALIA was used for experiments with aircraft which were successfully launched from a platform erected on one of her gun turrets.
		AUSTRALIA finally led the Port Column of the Grand Fleet when it escorted the surrendered German Fleet into the Firth-of-Forth on 21 November 1918.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/australia1.htm (641 words)

	ADF Serials - RAAF A2 Supermarine Seagull V / Walrus
		HMAS Australia 075 (9.9.35), damaged 26.3.36, Supermarine (31.3.36 for repairs), HMAS Hobart (27.10.38), damaged 15.11.38 Malta, RAAF Richmond (21.12.38), HMAS Canberra (6.2.39), HMAS Richmond (5.5.39), HMAS Canberra (13.7.39).
		HMAS Sydney (23.9.40), QANTAS Rose Bay (21.2.41 repairs), HMAS Sydney (1.3.41), lost when ship was sunk by German raider Kormoran 19.11.41, 130 miles SW of Carnarvon, WA, SOC 23.1.42.
		9 Sq (5.11.42), HMAS Australia (11.42), QANTAS (4.1.44 overhaul), 2FBRD (14.2.45), 8CU (26.3.45), 2CRD (27.9.45), 2FBRD (17.12.45), SOC 28.5.47.
	www.adf-serials.com /2a2.shtml (2031 words)

	HMAS Sydney [Australian War Memorial]
		His first appointment was to the battle cruiser HMAS Australia, serving with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea.
		He passed the staff course in 1932 and was promoted commander at the end of that year.
		Promoted captain on 31 December 1938, he returned to Australia and again served as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff until appointed in command of HMAS Sydney on 14 May 1941.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/hmas_sydney/burnett.htm (237 words)

	Battle for Australia Council
		Fear of Japan’s imperialist designs on Australia had been circulating since the early part of the century when Russia had been defeated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
		Australia’s part in the battle consisted of the heavy cruiser, HMAS Australia, the light cruiser HMAS Hobart, and aircraft flown from bases in Queensland by both Australian and American crews.
		HMAS Canberra was sunk off Savo Island, north of Guadalcanal, during this operation.
	www.battleforaustralia.org.au /coralsea.html (1620 words)

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