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	HMAS BURDEKIN - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		On 19 November 1944 BURDEKIN bombarded the northern tip of the Halmaheras and was engaged continuously in escort duties between New Guinea and the Philippines after the American invasion of these islands.
		With the cessation of hostilities in August 1945, BURDEKIN was one of a number of ships that made an unsuccessful attempt to contact Japanese forces on the island of Ambon.
		Shortly afterwards, on 8 September 1945, the surrender of Dutch Borneo by the Japanese was accepted on board BURDEKIN by Major General E.J. Milford, General Officer Commanding 7th Australian Division, from Vice Admiral Mitchishi Kamada.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/burdekin.html (461 words)

	NAVY News :: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMAS Westralia carried 1,047 officers and men including the 2/24th Battalion, AIF; HMAS Manoora had a crew plus men of the 2/48th Battalion, AIF, totalling 1,180.
		She was commissioned into the RAN on July 11 1946 and renamed HMAS Tarakan on December 16 1948.
		The present day HMAS Tarakan is a LCH (Landing Craft Heavy) based at HMAS Cairns, and is herself a ship of heroes.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/editions/4805/feature/feature05.htm (570 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot RAN Combatant Ships In WW2 List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMAS Vampire - Sunk in Bay of Bengal 1942
		HMAS Geelong - Sunk in Collision New Guinea 1944
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	HMAS GASCOYNE - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		HMAS GASCOYNE was ordered as part of Australia’s shipbuilding program during the Second World War.
		In early October she relieved HMAS WARREGO, at that time attached to the United States Hydrographic Unit of the United States Seventh Fleet.
		Later that month she sailed for the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines with the advance elements of the American forces assembled for the attack on the central Philippines.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/gascoyne1.html (944 words)

	Page5
		She arrived on the 27th transferred stores to HMAS Barcoo and the passengers ashore then embarked 10 Military Officers and 120 OR's and sailed for Macassar in the Celebes arriving on the 27th.
		With the survey and buoying completed Warrego in company with HMAS Burdekin sailed for Balikpapan on the 4/10.
		Under the command of Commander H. Dillon HMAS Warrego ended her final voyage in Sydney Harbour on the 9th.
	users.hunterlink.net.au /~ciadm/Warrego/Page5.html (520 words)

	Royal Australian Navy in World War II - Frigates, Sloops
		She then returned to escort duty, on which she was still engaged at the end of the war.
		Others of the class spent their entire war service on survey work (such as Lachlan); or escort, patrol and shore bombardment duty as far afield as Borneo and the Solomons, as did Barcoo and Burdekin at Tarakan (1st May 1945) and Brunei Bay (July 1945); and Diamantina (in Bougainville and the Solomons).
		The surrenders of three separate Japanese forces in Bougainville and Nauru were signed on Diamantina's quarterdeck; of the Japanese in Dutch Borneo aboard Burdekin; and of the Japanese in Balikpapan aboard Gascoyne.
	users.chariot.net.au /~lenshome/frigates.htm (630 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Diamantina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For the past eight years, the 100-metre frigate HMAS Diamantina has been sitting in seawater at the Queensland Maritime Museum in Brisbane after the corrosion...
		The Royal Australian Navy said two Huon class mine countermeasure vessels, HMAS Diamantina and HMAS Huon, were operating in North Bay, south of Marion Bay...
		HMAS Huon and HMAS Diamantina were searching for the anchor from the historic Dutch vessel Heemskerck, lost during Abel Tasman's visit to Tasmania more than...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Diamantina.htm (1435 words)

	Far East Strategic Reserve Navy Association (Australia) Inc.
		Able Seaman Spooner was a member of the ship’s company of HMAS TOBRUK when he was killed on duty at approximately 2117 GH on 26 April 1957 by a star shell fired from HMS COCKADE.
		HMAS TOBRUK sailed from Singapore on 24 April, in company with a number of RN and RAN ships for Exercise ASTRA, an operational training exercise in the Singapore Exercise Area, centered to the north of Singapore on the Malayan island of Pulau Tioman.
		HMAS ANZAC was deployed to the Far East Strategic Reserve in April 1957, arriving in the naval area of operations on 17 April.
	www.fesrassociation.com /archives/3.htm (4061 words)

	Chapter 12 Storm at Sea; Tropical Memory; At Base; Enemy Surrenders; RAN-Bougainville
		A fortnight previously H.M.A.S. Lithgow, accompanied by H.M.A.S. Dubbo and three Fairmile motor-launches, had attempted unsuccessfully to bring in the Jap general and had been rewarded with an unimportant Jap captain, who was an envoy from General Kanda.
		It was during one such incident that H.M.A.S. Colac was hit by a Jap shore battery.
		A green Very light was fired from HMAS Burdekin as a signal to come alongside, and the guards on the gangway, armed with cutlasses and standing at ease, snapped smartly to attention with ceremonial precision, and brought their cutlasses to the "carry".
	www.diggerhistory2.info /ran/1945/chapter12.htm (3394 words)

	aussiedestroyerk376-balikpapan-sep7-45.jpg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		AT 0815 on the 8th September, 1945, as he stepped aboard the quarter deck of the Australian frigate Burdekin, the flag of Major General E. Milford, G.O.C., 7 Div., was broken at the fore-truck and fluttered challengingly in the light breeze.
		Representatives of all the Allied services in the Balikpapan area were also embarked, and the Burdekin weighed anchor and proceeded out of Balikpapan harbour en route to a rendezvous position approximately fifty miles north, just off the mouth of the Mahakam River delta.
		The Japanese emissaries reembarked in P.T-377, and Burdekin returned to Balikpapan, the general's flag being struck at 1630.
	www.pt171.org /PT171/FrankKassay/target36.html (643 words)

	'surrenders'
		A signaller uses semaphore from the bridge of the corvette HMAS Lithgow as three RAN motor launches approach, escorting Japanese barges carrying an envoy for preliminary surrender discussions at Bougainville on 20 August 1945.
		The corvette HMAS Kiama escorting the convoy carrying Australian troops for the occupation of Rabaul following the surrender of the Japanese, Rabaul, September 1945.
		Major General Edward Milford, General Officer Commanding, 7th Division Australian Imperial Force, accepting the surrender of Vice Admiral Kamada, Commander 22 Naval Base Force, Imperial Japanese Navy, during a ceremony held on board the frigate HMAS Burdekin at Balikpapan, Borneo, on 8 September 1945.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /vevp/g_surrenders.html (285 words)

	Fitzalan Island at the Whitsundays
		In September 1860 the Queensland Government Schooner Spitfire passed north through the Whitsundays on its way to search for the mouth of the Burdekin River and to survey Port Denison preparatory to its settlement in 1861.
		On board were G. Dalrymple, Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District of Kennedy and botanist Eugene Fitzalan, both destined to play important roles in the development of the town of Bowen on Port Denison.
		However Little gave the name to Fitzalan Island and not to the point, which is something of a pity because Eugene Fitzalan's historical connection was with the point and not the island.
	www.thewhitsundays.com /islands/Fitzalan.html (1158 words)

	HMAS Shropshire - Stan Nicholls
		The statistics for HMAS Shropshire at 30 September 1945 and since commissioning on 17/4/1943 are of interest: Distance travelled 91 886.35 miles at an average speed of 14.35 knots.
		With the cold weather approaching, and the ship's engines being dormant, the ship became cold and musty, there were a few fellows regretting their hasty sales of clothes to the Japs.
		As our time in Japan as part of the Occupation Forces was drawing to a close and to some degree boredom setting in, reminiscing became part of the conversation as opposed to 'What are you going to take on after discharge'.
	www.hmasshropshire.com /chapter8p2.htm (6081 words)

	Chapter 12 Surrender of the Japanese; Angels Sing; Informal call; Reverie;
		Representatives of all the Allied services operating in Balikpapan were aboard the Australian frigate H.M.A.S. Burdekin at the rendezvous fifty miles north of Balikpapan, off the mouth of the Mahakam River delta.
		HMAS Burdekin (K 376) on the day of the surrender.
		General Milford, accompanied by the commander of the Burdekin, Lieutenant-Commander T. Marchington, R.N.R., walked briskly to the table, returned the salutes of the staff officers, turned and faced the Japs, grimly but triumphantly.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /army/1945/chapter12.htm (3353 words)

	Battle of Tarakan (1945) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Light cruisers: USS Phoenix, USS Boise, HMAS Hobart
		Destroyers: USS Taylor, USS Nicholas, USS O’Bannon, USS Fletcher, USS Jenkins, HMAS Warramunga
		Landing ships: 2 LSI (HMAS Manoora and HMAS Westralia), 1 AKA (USS Titania), 1 LSD (USS Rushmore), 21 LST, 12 LCI, 4 LSM, 12 LCT
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tarakan_(1945) (1269 words)

	Australian Navy
		N class destroyer HMS Norman transferred to RAN 1941.
		Built in Australia 3 Tribal class destroyer, 60 corvettes (4 for India), 6 frigates, 35 mototorpedo launches, 9 harbour defence and 4 boom defence vessels.
		HMAS Australia(CA), HMS Canberra(CA), HMAS Hobart(CL), HMAS Bungaree (minelayer)
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Australianfleet.html (198 words)

	Army - The Soldiers' Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The fleet included, three aircraft carriers, nine crusiers, including HMA Ships Shropshire and Hobart, five infantry landing ships, troopships, including HMA Ships, Manoora, Kanimbla and Westralia, 34 destroyers, 28 tank landing ships, infantry landing craft and mechanical landing ships.
		H hour was 9am, selected because full light was at 7am and the bombarding warships could not begin firing until then.
		The cost to the Australians was 229 killed and 634 wounded, a high price so late in the war.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/armynews/editions/1104/topstories/story21.htm (1137 words)

	HMAS Diamantina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Her seven sister ships also built in Australia were Barcoo, Barwon, Burdekin, Gascoyne, Hawkesbury, Lachlan and Macquarie.
		In September 1980, Diamantina was presented to the Q.M.M.A. and steamed to Brisbane in October of that year, being placed in the Dry Dock at South Brisbane.
		HMAS Diamantina - as she now sits in Drydock at the QMMA
	www.maritimemuseum.com.au /ships/diamantina.htm (366 words)

	Australian Vietnam Veterans Organisations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I thought this would be of interest to the USN guys, who got to know our sailors on the "gun line," as well as for our Mates Down Under...
		"The 'HMAS Perth' will be decommissioned on Friday, 15 October, 1999, three weeks after she sailed into Sydney harbour flying her paying off pennant.
		The pennant was 471 feet long representing the length of the ship plus one foot for each year of service.
	grunt.space.swri.edu /ozorgs.htm (1864 words)

	Marine and Coastal Community Network \| Article \| Northern E-Bulletin November 2004
		Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Mangement Plan Public Comment Meetings, 25, 29 Nov, 7 Dec.
		Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Mangement Plan Public Comment Meetings, 25, 29 November, 7 December.
		The plan has been developed through a community based approach and is now available for public consultation.
	www.mccn.org.au /article.php/id/108 (4381 words)

	The Battle of Tarakan
		In late April 1945 an invasion fleet escorted by the cruiser HMAS Hobart and the destroyers HMAS Barcoo, Burdekin, Hawkesbury, Lachlan and Warramunga arrived off the south-western coast of Tarakan.
		Supported by heavy naval bombardment, on 30 April engineers destroyed the tangle of defences blocking a landing at Tarakan Island.
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	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/tarakan.htm (2760 words)

	POST Newspapers Online: Headline News
		The war in the Pacific had ended a month before this fourth issue of Pigeon Post, and its pages record how the soldiers learnt of the surrender of the local Japanese forces.
		"The ceremony at which Vice Admiral Mitashishi Kamada, Commander of Japanese forces in South Borneo, signed the instrument of surrender took place aboard HMAS Burdekin at 1200 hours on September 8, 1945," the magazine said.
		The ship was stationed about 80km north of Balikpapan.
	www.postnewspapers.com.au /20050806/news/012.shtml (604 words)

	ourcommunity.com.au - Donations
		To preserve the HMAS Diamantina (WW2 Frigate) as well as the heritage listed South Brisbane Dry Dock.
		Restoration of the 122 year old pump room and infrastructure.
		Diamantina was named after a river in Queensland, which in turn was named after the wife of the first Governor of Queensland, Sir George Ferguson Bowen.
	www.ourcommunity.com.au /giving/appeal_details.form?appealId=298 (386 words)

	Domestic Bliss reveiw - Forums
		Send me to HMAS nark, see if I care!
		I have seen more life in mortuaries than when Nubreed and Phil K were playing.
		Yeah, I thought Nubreed were much better when I saw them a while back.
	www.inthemix.com.au /forum/showthread.php?p=1539579 (718 words)

	Historical and service information
		Battle of Savo Island: the loss of HMAS Canberra (from Royal Australian Navy site)
		HMAS Quiberon’s 1948 deployment to Japan (from the Australian Naval Institute site)
		HMAS Sydney / Kormoran documents (from Royal Australian Navy site)
	www.vrb.gov.au /index/aat-h04.html (2402 words)

	Crosses M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Thanks pop for everything you did to help.
		MALES, T, Navy T Males, HMAS Sydney 19/11/41
		To our late husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather.
	www.gsv.org.au /crosses/CrossesM.htm (711 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Frigate HMAS Burdekin of the River class
		uboat.net - Allied Warships - Frigate HMAS Burdekin of the River class
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	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/216.html (74 words)

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