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	HMAS Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 paid off for disposal on 31 August 1954 and sold for scrap to the British Iron and Steel Corporation (Salvage) on 25 January 1955.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/hm/hmas_australia.html (153 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 (1927) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMAS Australia [1], 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–September 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 lb) bomb, in the first-ever kamikaze attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Australia_(1927) (689 words)

	HMAS AUSTRALIA (II) - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.html (1954 words)

	HMAS Sydney II - Captain Theodor Anton Detmers
		Captain Theodor Detmers was born on 22 August 1902 at Witten in the Ruhr.
		During his two years aboard the cruiser he was promoted to lieutenant commander and visited Australia in the course of a training cruise in 1933.
		He was repatriated after the war, but, having been rendered unsuitable for further naval service by a stroke while in captivity, he did not join the post-war German navy.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/hmas_sydney/detmers.htm (313 words)

	Navy; a Category index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1859, Australia was established as a separate British Naval Station and until 1913, a squadron of the Royal Navy was maintained in Australian waters.
		In June 1912, a third destroyer, HMAS Warrego was commissioned at Sydney and in 1913 the battle cruiser, HMAS Australia and the light cruisers, HMA Ships Melbourne and Sydney arrived in Australian waters.
		It was whilst escorting a convoy that the light cruiser HMAS SYDNEY was detached to investigate the sighting of a strange warship.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/0-navy-cat-index.htm (1422 words)

	The Pioneers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1901, when the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed, the value of submarines (boats, as they are affectionately called) as a form of naval warfare was still a contentious issue.
		This was due to damage it sustained from a torpedo blast during a Japanese midget submarine attack in Sydney Harbour on the night of 31 May/1June 1942.
		When HMAS Oxley left Malta she was under the command of Lt.Cdr.F.L. Getting, thus becoming the first 'Australian' submarine commander.
	www.submarinesaustralia.com /history/SM_the_pioneers.htm (2118 words)

	Naval Operations 1901-2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		HMA Submarine AE2 became the first allied warship to penetrate the Dardanelles; her feat was instrumental in the decision not to withdraw the soldiers after the first day.
		During the Philippines campaign HMAS Australia (II) was hit by a kamikaze resulting in the deaths of her captain CAPT E Dechaineux and other crew members.
		HMAS Murchison gained fame whilst operating in the Han River area in September/October 1951, when she was hit by communist shore positions.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/navynews/editions/2001/10_15_01/story21.htm (4150 words)

	The World at War - Australian Timeline 1918-48
		While Australia traded with many nations her main trading partners during the pre-war period were, in order of importance, Great Britain, United States, Japan and Germany.
		Australia sends small expeditionary force to capture the German colonies in the southwest pacific and neutralise German naval wireless communications.
		Australia sends the second AIF to support British war effort in Europe, especially in the Western Desert of North Africa, Greece & Crete, on Cyprus and the Middle East.
	worldatwar.net /timeline/australia/18-48.html (2125 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - HMA Submarines
		Above HMA Submarine J2 In 1923 there was vigorous debate on the subject of whether Britain should build replacement submarines for the "J" Class or build them in Australia.
		Unfortunately, Australia's third attempt at maintaining a submarine service was terminated when armament limitations and the deepening economic depression forced the paying off of both boats at the end of 1929.
		HMAS Oxley's arrival in Sydney coincided with the commissioning of the submarine base HMAS Platypus established at Neutral bay, Sydney.
	www.gunplot.net /submarines/submarines2.html (603 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 (1093 words)

	Aurora Australis - Alternate History Discussion Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There is one notable exception; Australia withdrew from the treaty when advised that their naval allocation would be included in that of the British Empire.
		The shipyards in Australia are booming with orders from a number of Australian shipping companies who need large merchant ships to transport the manufactured goods and resources to their various markets.
		Australia has escaped the worst effects of the Great Depression by encouraging business to be more conservative with their finances.
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=3384 (6053 words)

	Project Name aussie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The HMAS Australia was one the finest Heavy cruisers of the time.
		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.wiley4.net /hmsau/aussie.htm (1105 words)

	Up Periscope home of the Submarines Association Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1915 the Collage was relocated to HMAS CRESWELL, Jervis Bay.
		HMA Submarines OXLEY and OTWAY finally left Malta in November 1928 and arrived in Sydney on 14 February 1929 to establish the Third Submarine Flotilla in New South Wales.
		In Australia the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff was Captain J. Burnett RAN.
	www.submarinesaustralia.com /bios/bio_getting.html (1929 words)

	HMAS Canberra (1927) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMAS Canberra [1] was a Royal Australian Navy heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class of County class cruisers.
		She was laid down by John Brown and Company of Clydebank in Scotland on 9 September 1925, launched on 31 May 1927 by Her Royal Highness Princess Mary and commissioned on 9 July 1928 under the command of Captain George L. Massey RN.
		In its name city, Canberra, the national capital city of Australia, is a memorial beside Lake Burley Griffin adjacent to the National Carillon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Canberra_(1927) (998 words)

	HMAS Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first, HMS Australia was an Orlando class cruiser of the Royal Navy completed in 1888 and scrapped in 1905.
		The second, HMAS Australia was an Indefatigable class battlecruiser launched in 1911, shortly after the formation of the Royal Australian Navy and sunk in 1924 in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
		A planned fourth HMAS Australia would have been the renamed HMS Invincible had she been sold to the RAN.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Australia (182 words)

	History of Australia presented by the Eureka Council
		It is now believed that Chinese explorers found Australia centuries before the Europeans did and there are suggestions that Cook may have been used Chinese maps during his explorations in the Pacific in 1770; but here we are picking up the story from the first European record in 1503.
		Australia and England play the first cricket Test match in Melbourne.
		Australia to decorate its heroes from the Vietnam and Gulf Wars
	www.australiahistory.com.au (2428 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1927 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
		April 12 - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
		The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/1927.html (2152 words)

	Ocean Waves - Royal Australian Navy - HMAS Canberra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		HMAS Canberra was a Kent class design of the County-class class heavy cruiser in the Royal Australian Navy.
		The wreck of HMAS Canberra was rediscovered and examined in July and August 1992, almost exactly fifty years after her scuttling.
		She lies upright on the ocean floor, approximately 2500 ft (760 m) deep, with visible signs of shell hits and fire damage amidships.
	www.royal-navy.org /ran/content/view/11/13 (996 words)

	Captain Joseph Burnett
		Joseph Burnett was born at Singleton, New South Wales, on 26 December 1899 and became captain of HMAS Sydney in 1941.
		Having graduated in 1917, he was sent to England where he joined HMAS Australia, on which he served until the end of the First World War, reaching the rank of sub-lieutenant.
		In 1924 he was appointed gunner officer on HMAS Adelaide, in the same year he married Enid Ward and returned to Australia.
	www.awm.gov.au /people/8004.asp (437 words)

	AFLOAT Magazine - Australia's No. 1 FREE marine publication - take monthly with water - The Royal Australian Navy over ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By 1956 the cruisers had gone and the RAN was a two carrier force with generally five destroyers in commission and half a dozen frigates of various type.
		Australia’s people and politicians still seemed to have some public pride in their armed forces and most people had an opinion on the subject.
		In Australia in 2004 we are, once again, arguing the need for ships with flight decks and the Coalition government, pre-election, was announcing, very quietly, the construction of two helicopter carriers to be ‘rushed’ into service from 2012!
	www.afloat.com.au /www/79/1001224/displayarticle/1002221.html (1892 words)

	This Month in Australian Military History
		The commencement of the aircraft carrier, HMAS Sydney's, first patrol off Korea's west coast made Australia the third country (after the USA and Britain) to operate a carrier in the Korean War.
		HMAS Adelaide arrives at the British Solomon Islands Protectorate as part of a British punitive expedition.
		HMAS Geelong was one of four corvettes lost during the Second World War.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/thismonth/index.asp (1238 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot HMAS Tingira, Boys Training Ship
		She was chiefly known as a crack passenger clipper arid SOBRAON never formed one of the ‘wool fleet’, whose sailing times from Australia were for most of the ships during the period October to early January.
		Her accommodation for passengers has been stated to be unrivaled in any sailing ship built, the first class saloon stretching from the stern to the foremast being 200 feet in length.
		On the latter run she passed Cape Otway on the morning of the 60th day out, but was then delayed by light variable winds, which prevented what had pranised to be a 61 day passage.
	www.gunplot.net /colonialnavy/hmastingira1.htm (1121 words)

	Coral Sea Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first ship to bear the name Australia in the Royal Australian Navy was the Battle Cruiser Australia.
		She was the flagship of the second Battle Cruiser Fleet of the Grand Fleet in 1915, and was present in Scapa Flow when the German High Seas Fleet surrendered.
		She was launched on March 17th, 1927 and fully completed in April 1928.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~gcasey/HMAS_Aust.html (284 words)

	ADF Serials - RAAF A9 Supermarine Seagull III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The survey for this period was completed on 18 March 1927 and A9-1 flew back to RAAF Base Richmond.
		The pilot and the observer were injured and the TAG Donald McGowan was killed.
		3 April 1934 embarked in HMAS AUSTRALIA disembarking on the 8th and re-embarking on 24 April.
	www.adf-serials.com /1a9.shtml (636 words)

	Bagley
		In April 1927, Bagley moved to the 9th Naval District as the assistant (later changed to chief of staff) to the commandant with temporary additional duty as acting commanding officer of the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes.
		Australia, with Rear Admiral V.A.C. Crutchley, RN, on board, left formation for a command conference at Lunga Roads at 2130.
		Bagley arrived at Brisbane, Australia, on 3 September and spent the next six months covering the movement of reinforcements and supplies from Australia to New Guinea.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/b1/bagley-iii.htm (8069 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot
		Admiral Lord Jellicoe arrives in Australia to report on Naval Defence.
		Australia scuttled off Sydney in accordance with Washington Treaty.
		HMS Sussex attached to Australian Squadron in exchange for HMAS Australia.
	www.gunplot.net /randiary/ranmilennium2.html (437 words)

	British 8"/50 (20.3 cm) Mark VIII
		Considerable attention was paid to these faults, especially in 1927 and 1928, before these ships were accepted into service.
		After the initial trials, in an effort to improve the operation of these mountings, the training and elevation rates were reduced prior to commissioning and reduced still further during the 1930s.
		These were capable of training at 8 degrees per second, but were limited to 6 degrees per second by other demands on the pump and to only 2 degrees per second during loading operations.
	www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNBR_8-50_mk8.htm (1005 words)

	HONOUR ROLL of Crew of AE1 - NEW GUINEA EXPEDITIONARY FORCE - Sep 1914. HONOUR ROLL of Crew of AE2 lost in ...
		On August 5th 1914, England in a telegram to the Prime Minister sought Australia's help in mobilising a force to proceed to German New Guinea to capture a wireless station, thought to be of great use to the German fleet then active in the Pacific area.
		With funds raised locally, and a grant from the Department of Veterans' Affairs, a large bronze pictorial plaque was commissioned at the front of this RSL on 16.12.2001.
		STOKER took the Submarine AE2 to Australia in early 1914 and took part in some operations in the Pacific in late 1914 before returning to the Mediterranean in early 1915.
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/nominalrolls.html/ngef.1914.html (8551 words)

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