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	HMAS Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	Australia
		The Royal Australian Navy was officially established in 1911 from the independent naval squadron formed in 1909, and in 1913 the light cruisers Sydney, Melbourne and battlecruiser Australia arrived.
		Autonomy notwithstanding, Australia went to war in 1914 on an upsurge of patriotism, a determination to stand behind Britain "to the last man and the last shilling".
		Australia's national day, Anzac Day, commemorates the anniversary of the first landings at Gallipoli; the campaign was immortalised in the film "Gallipoli" with Mel Gibson and much has been written about the privations of that campaign, the brunt of which were borne by ANZAC.
	members.tripod.com /~Brickie/australia.html (840 words)

	HMAS Australia (1911) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		HMAS Australia sailed for home on 23 April 1919 and arrived in Sydney on 15 June where she resumed her peacetime role as the flagship of the Royal Australian Navy.
		The 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Australia_(1911) (464 words)

	HMAS AUSTRALIA (I) - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		The Australian Navy's first flagship, the battle cruiser HMAS Australia was the centrepiece of the 'Fleet Unit', whose acquisition signalled the RAN's arrival as a credible ocean-going force.
		In company with the new light cruiser HMAS Sydney, Australia sailed from Portsmouth on 21 July 1913, and their voyage home was seen as a further opportunity to stimulate public awareness and naval sentiment around the British Empire.
		It is the expression of Australia's resolve to pursue, in freedom, its national ideals, and to hand down unimpaired and unsullied the heritage it has received, and which it holds and cherishes as an inviolable trust.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/australia1.html (998 words)

	WWIIonline [General Info] - RN/RAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		It was whilst escorting a convoy that the light cruiser HMAS SYDNEY was detached to investigate the sighting of a strange warship.
		HMAS AE2 became the first allied warship to penetrate the Dardanelles, but was eventually sunk by the Turkish navy in the Sea of Mamora.
	users.bigpond.net.au /Windrode/_sgt/m1_1.htm (1342 words)

	Australia
		In addition, Australia paid for the running costs of this vessel, so she was placed under Australian command upon completion, and served as flagship for the Royal Australian Navy from June 1913 to December 1914.
		HMAS Australia was on convoy escort duty through-out August of 1914, then participated in actions against German New Guinea in mid-December.
		Australia was released to return to her home country in 1919.
	www.bobhenneman.info /AustraliaHistory.htm (384 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)

	Schools - Timeline
		Australia’s new flag of "Stars and Crosses" is raised for the first time at approximately 2.30 pm.
		The success of HMAS Sydney is an international news event and establishes the fighting reputation of the Royal Australian Navy.
		Australia’s flag is raised as the allies retake Kokoda, New Guinea.
	www.australianflag.org.au /timeline.php (1561 words)

	Encyclopedia entries starting with HMA
		HMAS Brisbane was a Town class light cruiser laid down by HMA Naval Dockyard at Cockatoo Island at Sydney in New South Wales on 25 January 1913, launched on 30 September 1915 by Mrs Andrew Fisher, wife of the Prime Minister of Australia, and commissioned on 31 October 1916.
		HMAS Burdekin (K-376), named for the Burdekin River in Queensland, was a River class frigate laid down by Walkers Limited at Maryborough in Queensland, launched on 30 June 1943 by Miss K Collings, daughter of the Minister for the Interior and Leader of the Government in the Senate and commissioned o..
		HMAS Cootamundra (J-316/M-186), named for the town of Cootamundra in New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole and Steele at Sydney in New South Wales on 26 February 1942, launched on 3 December 1942 by Lady Davidson, wife of the general manager of the Bank of New South Wales..
	encycl.opentopia.com /H/HM/HMA (10487 words)

	HMAS Sydney Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first HMAS Sydney was a Chatham-class light cruiser built in Glasgow, Scotland, between 1911 and 1913 for the newly formed Royal Australian Navy.
		Sydney met her end tragically on November 19, 1941, 150 miles west of Shark Bay, Western Australia.
		The ship continued in service as a carrier until 1955 when her newer sister ship, HMAS Melbourne, took over the RAN's aircraft carrier role.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/h/hm/hmas_sydney.html (606 words)

	Naval Operations 1901-2001
		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)

	HMAS Warrego (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first HMAS Warrego (D-70) was a River class destroyer laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited at Govan in Scotland, launched 4 April 1911 and commissioned on 1 June 1912.
		HMAS Warrego paid off 19 April 1928 and sank while being dismantled in 1931.
		The second HMAS Warrego was a Grimsby class sloop.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hm/hmas_warrego.html (92 words)

	Forging The Nation - Australia's own fleet
		It was launched on 25 October 1911 at Clydebank, Scotland, and arrived in Sydney on 4 October 1913.
		In 1913, the flagship HMAS Australia arrived in Sydney Harbour and celebrations were conducted for the assembled fleet.
		On board HMAS Australia he was in charge of naval operations at Samoa, the capture of German New Guinea and in the pursuit of a German squadron in the Pacific.
	www.awm.gov.au /forging/security/own_fleet.htm (403 words)

	Australian Military Units
		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.awm.gov.au /units/unit_12572.asp (387 words)

	La Luciole - Naval war in the pacific, 1914
		At the outbreak of war on 3 August 1914, the East Asiatic Squadron consisted of the cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and light cruisers Emden, Nurnberg and Leipzig.
		Since the independence of Australia and New Zealand in 1901 and 1907 respectively, British interests in the region primarily lay in South East Asia, with the Royal Navy based in Hong Kong under Admiral Jerram.
		With the formation of the Australian Navy in 1911, HMAS Australia was stationed in Australia.
	www.laluciole.net /eas/eas01a-intro.html (492 words)

	ARCHIVE - SAINT MARY'S
		Australia Street was named after the battleship HMAS Australia.
		HMAS Australia was the flagship of the first Australian fleet that came to Sydney in 1913 with HMAS Sydney.
		Australia Street, St Marys is a long straight street, intersected by at least two other streets.
	www.uts.edu.au /div/iim/AustraliaSt/ARCHIVE/STM09.shtml (1104 words)

	SCUBA Diving Australia
		The Yongala is a shipwreck in Queensland, which sank during a cyclone in 1911 killing 122 people, a racehorse called Moonshine and a red Lincolnshire bull.
		Carrying passengers bound for Australia, it arrived in Sydney on 6 December 1903.
		The HMAS Brisbane is now a purpose made diving site with all the appropriate holes cut in it for exits and of course safety.
	www.scubatravel.co.uk /australia (4074 words)

	Dreadnoughts
		For some time Australia continued to rely on the Royal Navy for its defence but by 1910 had begun building its own battle cruisers and other vessels.
		HMAS Australia was launched 1911, and completed in June 1913.
		Dreadnoughts or Australia’s Naval defence is a board game that draws upon this newfound pride in Australia’s own navy, with the dramatic illustration of a mighty battle cruiser, or dreadnought, on its cover.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /exhibitions/treasures/dreadnoughts.htm (210 words)

	HMAS Australia (1912-1924)
		She led a force which captured Rabaul on 13 September 1914 before proceeding to Samoa.
		Returning home in 1919, Australia suffered a mutiny upon reaching Fremantle, Western Australia.
		Quite obsolete, she became a training vessel in Westernport until scuttled off Sydney Heads on 12 April 1924.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/australia.htm (306 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot RAN 20th Century Almanac
		Australia collides with cruiser New Zealand and misses Battle of Jutland.
		Australia, Sydney and Melbourne present at surrender of German Fleet at Scapa Flow.
		Users of the web site shall only be entitled to copy the web site for their own personal use and may not republish or reproduce any substantial part of the web site in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of the owner.
	www.gunplot.net /randiary/ranmilennium.html (494 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)

	Royal Australian Navy plans two new aircraft capable amphibious ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMAS Sydney served as a carrier during the Korean War, but really was only barely capable because of its old fashioned design - that is, it served well enough in Korea, but it was already clear that it was at the limits of its capabilities.
		Australia had a conservative government at the time - late 1970s - and they were willing to replace the Melbourne, but wanted to do so as cheaply as was reasonably possible.
		On 25th February 1982, Australia announced that it was going to purchase the Invincible and it would join the Australian fleet in 1983 as HMAS Australia.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1362449/posts (2195 words)

	Whyalla
		After the settlement of South Australia in 1836 the natural resources of the area were soon used by pastoralists.
		In 1911 the S.A. Government constructed a 500,000 litre water tank and BHP later excavated two reservoirs.
		All this activity resulted in a rapid expansion of the work force at BHP and the doubling of the town's population.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /whyalla.htm (967 words)

	Netherlands East Indies Air Force in Australia during WW2
		The first NEI-AF Squadron was 18 (NEI) Squadron, which was formed as an RAAF Squadron at Fairbairn airfield in Canberra on 4 April 1942 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B.J. Fiedeldij.
		As part of this exercise 18 (NEI) Squadron and 31 Squadron RAAF were moved to Learmonth airfield in the Potshot area (Exmouth Gulf area) on 10 March 1944.
		The Squadron relocated to Potshot (Learmonth) in Western Australia on 9 March 1944 They flew through Adelaide and Ceduna, and across the Nullabor Plains via Kalgoorlie, and then Potshot (Exmouth Gulf).
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/nei-af.htm (3036 words)

	History of the 1921 Project
		In order to produce the ships as quickly as possible, and to bring down the costs and make them more palatable to Parliament, they were to be a slightly modified version of the preceding class.
		This vessel thus came under control of that Dominion nation, and carried the designation of HMAS, though the Royal Navy had the right to withdraw the vessel from the Pacific if such a move did not endanger the defense of Australia in any way.
		The economy of the program was provided by repeating the hull of the Invincible, with an identical armor scheme, and simply stretching it by 25 feet to allow for better arcs of fire for the amidships turrets.
	www.bobhenneman.info /Indefatigablehistory.htm (413 words)

	Indefatigable Battlecruiser - HMS Indefatigable, New Zealand, HMAS Australia
		The last two ships, Australia and New Zealand, were funded by those respective countries and started at a time when the British themselves were building the much superior Lion class.
		HMAS Australia was retained by the Royal Australian Navy as flagship although was expected to be under British control in war.
		Initially Australia was involved in hunting German cruisers in the Pacific and then served in the North Sea.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /battlecruiser/hms-indefatigable.html (578 words)

	Royal Australian Navy - in and around Australia during WW2
		Victoria Barracks in Melbourne became the Headquarters for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) since its formation in 1911.
		Australia was divided into a number of naval zones which more or less ignored each other.
		HMAS Torrens - Naval Depot and Headquarters at Port Adelaide, SA Rushcutter Naval Depot, Edgecliff, Rushcutter's Bay, NSW
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/ran/ran.htm (339 words)

	Military history of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Australian Navy came into existence in 1911 and on 4 October 1913 the new fleet steamed through Sydney Heads, the fleet consisted of the Battle cruiser HMAS Australia, three light cruisers and 3 destroyers with several other ships under construction.
		Australia offered 30 military advisors, sent as the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam which was often known simply as "The Team".
		Australia was a member of the international coalition which contributed military forces to the 1991 Gulf War, with Australia deploying a naval task group of two warships and a support ship during the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_history_of_Australia (4775 words)

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