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	HMAS Deloraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMAS Deloraine (J-232/M-232), named for the town of Deloraine, Tasmania, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain in New South Wales, launched on 26 July 1941 by Dame Mary Hughes, wife of the Minister for the Navy, and commissioned on 27 November 1941.
		The Deloraine, in company with USS Edsall, HMAS Katoomba and HMAS Lithgow, attacked and sank the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-124 — the first enemy submarine to be sunk in Australian waters — on 20 January 1942.
		HMAS Deloraine paid off to reserve at Fremantle on 30 June 1948 and was sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Delta Shipping Company on 8 August 1956.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/HMAS-Deloraine.htm (218 words)

	HMAS Lithgow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMAS Lithgow (J-206/M-206), named for the city of Lithgow in New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain in New South Wales, launched on 21 December 1940 and commissioned on 14 June 1941.
		Lithgow, in company with USS Edsall, HMAS Katoomba and HMAS Deloraine, sank the enemy Japanese submarine I-124 off Darwin, the first enemy submarine sunk in Australian waters, on 20 January 1942.
		HMAS Lithgow paid off to reserve on 8 June 1948 and was sold to the Hong Kong Delta Shipping Company on 8 August 1956.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hm/hmas_lithgow.html (128 words)

	HMAS Cowra - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Cowra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMAS Cowra (J-351/M-351), named for the town of Cowra in New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole and Steele at Balmain in New South Wales on 12 August 1942, launched on 27 May 1943 by Mrs.
		HMAS Cowra paid off to reserve on 4 December 1946 but recommissioned on 20 February 1951 as a training ship for National Service ratings.
		She paid off on 26 June 1953, was sold to the Kinoshita Company in January 1962, towed to Japan along with HMAS Kapunda and HMAS Rockhampton in 1962 and broken up.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMAS-Cowra.html (192 words)

	Walkabout - Deloraine
		Deloraine is a charming, historically interesting and attractive town located on the banks of the Meander River 228 km north of Hobart, 48 km west of Launceston and 253 m above sea level.
		This resulted in a dramatic increase in population which led to the town becoming a municipality in 1863 and, in 1872, a railway line between Deloraine and Launceston was constructed.The early settlers raised cattle and grew wheat but the climate was against them and they did not prosper.
		To the south of the river is the original village of Alveston which was in existence before the larger settlement of Deloraine began to develop on the northern bank of the river.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/TASDeloraine.shtml (926 words)

	HMAS Katoomba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMAS Katoomba (J-204/M-204), named for the tourist resort of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole and Steele at Balmain in New South Wales on 9 September 1940, launched on 16 April 1942 by Mrs.
		In company with HMAS Deloraine, HMAS Lithgow and USS Edsall, she was officially credited with destroying the enemy Japanese submarine I-124 on 20 January 1942, the first enemy submarine sunk in Australian waters.
		HMAS Katoomba paid off to reserve at Fremantle on 2 August 1948 and sold for scrap to the Hong Kong Rolling Mills on 2 May 1957.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/HMAS-Katoomba.htm (195 words)

	Actions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMAS Geelong was in Sydney harbour during the attack by Japanese midget submarines on the 31st of May 1942, and fired on one of them off Bradley's Head.
		HMAS Kutabull, a requisitioned Harbour Ferry and at the moment used as a depot and accommodation ship, was sunk by a torpedo.
		HMAS Ipswich, Cessnock and Ballarat were amongst the Australian vessels during the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on the 2nd of September 1945.
	vader.nw.com.au /~stella/actions.htm (1727 words)

	Battle for Australia Council
		HMAS Deloraine, which had been in commission only eight weeks, took on a huge Japanese submarine, the I-124, 80 kilometres west of Darwin and sank it.
		On April 11, 1943, HMAS Pirie was making her fifth trip to Oro Bay when the Japanese attacked the troops ashore with a force of 22 bombers and 72 fighters.
		The RAN has now named one of its submarines HMAS Sheean and named the first of its new patrol boats HMAS Armidale in recognition of the courage and ingenuity that characterised the Australian corvettes in the Battle for Australia.
	www.battleforaustralia.org.au /corvettes.html (1920 words)

	Japanese submarine I-124 in Australian waters during WW2
		The 3 Australian corvettes "Deloraine", "Katoomba" and "Lithgow" were ordered to assist with destroying the Japanese submarine.
		"Deloraine" arrived in the area on 20 January 1942 and at 1.35pm her starboard lookout reported "Torpedo approaching green 100".
		Another asdic contact was made and after more depth charge attacks, "Deloraine" claimed it had destroyed 2 Japanese submarines, while "Katoomba" had also claimed another Japanese submarine.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/japsubs/i-124.htm (372 words)

	Two Japanese Air Raids at Darwin, NT on 19 February 1942
		HMAS Katoomba, which was located in the floating dock at the time of the attack, put up an intense barrage of anti-aircraft fire.
		HMAS Patricia Cam was involved in salvage work on the Don Isidro on Bathurst Island in May 1942.
		HMAS Tambar attempted unsuccessfully to salvage Kelat in 1943.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/darwin02.htm (5032 words)

	John A. Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		He assumed command of the HMAS Sydney and in the Mediterranean Sea sunk the Italian naval vessel, Bartolomeo Colleoni.
		Commander of a RAN squadron and U.S. Task Force, he was wounded while embarked aboard the HMAS Australia during the Battle of Leyete Gulf by a kamikaze aircraft which struck the bridge killing the captain and 30 others.
		The HMAS Collins (SSK 73) the lead in a class of Australian submarines, was named for him and commissioned 27 July, 1996.
	www.ussmissouri.com /surrender/collins.htm (169 words)

	Border Island at the Whitsundays
		The naming by Bedwell of Border Island and its Cateran Bay and Mosstrooper Peak together with nearby Deloraine Island, Minstrel Rock and Esk Island is an example of associated names arising from the 16th and 17th Century history of Cumberland and its turbulent relationship with Scotland across their mutual border.
		Deloraine is a town and area in the south of Scotland and legend has it that during the 16th and 17th Centuries it was a stronghold of Scottish disaffection with England across the Border and a base for Mosstroopers and Cateran.
		The poem describes Deloraine as 'a stark moss-trooping Scot was he, as e'er couched Border lance by knee' and talks of his exploits against the English.
	www.thewhitsundays.com /islands/border.html (817 words)

	HMAS Culgoa - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Culgoa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMAS Culgoa (K-408/F-408/A-256), named for the Culgoa River, was a Bay class frigate laid down as Murray (but renamed to avoid confusion with HMS Murray) by the Naval Dockyard at Williamstown in Victoria on 15 July 1943, launched on 22 September 1945 by Mrs.
		Showers, wife of the Second Naval Member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and completed on 24 December 1946 and placed into reserve but commissioned on 1 April 1947.
		HMAS Culgoa paid of into reserve on 15 April 1954, was sold for scrap to N. Kennedy Limited of Vancouver in Canada on 15 February 1972 and left Sydney under tow for Taiwan in March 1972.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMAS-Culgoa.html (185 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot Ord Seaman Teddy Sheean
		On the afternoon of 1st December, whilst on this mission, HMAS Armidale was attacked 560 Kilometres from the Australian coast by 9 bombers and 4 fighters.
		HMAS Kuru was also attacked over a period of 7 hours by over 50 Jap aircraft, but suffered only shrapnel damage to her engine.
		HMAS Dechaineux will be named after Captain Dechaineux who was commanding officer HMAS "Australia" and died in action in the Philippines.
	www.gunplot.net /sheeanarmidale/Sheean.html (1048 words)

	People's Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		She was commissioned as HMAS Gippsland for use as a navigational training ship, minefield tender and, later, a boom defence vessel.
		Corvette HMAS Deloraine collided with Gippsland in Sydney Harbour on 7 May 1944.
		HMAS Gippsland was decommissioned in May 1944 and sold by the RAN in 1946.
	www.peoplesvoice.gov.au /stories/vic/lakesentrance/lakesentrance_w_gippsland.htm (398 words)

	Corvettes 2
		It was sunk by a torpedo from HMAS OVENS off Jervis Bay in 4 March 1987.
		Later based in Fremantle and rescued survivors from HMAS Wallaroo.
		Served in New Guinea and shelled Japanese positions at Wewak and in Solomons.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~mildura/corvettes_2.htm (757 words)

	NAVY News :: Features
		Unlike most of her sisters which were never recalled to active duty, HMAS Mildura was brought forward as a National Service training ship and recommissioned in Fremantle on February 20, 1951.
		Operating in Western Australian waters, Mildura was a familiar sight until her sister ship HMAS Fremantle replaced her in the training role in 1953.
		Mildura’s last voyage was being towed out of Melbourne by the tug HMAS Sprightly on December 8, 1954 bound for Brisbane where she was moored in the Brisbane River in her new role as a training ship for naval reservists.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/EDITIONS/4719/feature/feature03.htm (469 words)

	jjedsall
		HMAS Corvette "DeLoraine" was ordered to the area of the contact where Captain Menlove and his crew skillfully avoided a torpedo that passed just ten feet from her stern.
		After expending all of her ordinance she was rearmed by another vessel and continued the attack later around 17:00 when she and her companions were joined by the Edsall and Alden.
		Edsall's sonar and DeLoraine's asdic were able to triangulate the position of the submarine and made a combined attack at 17:30 DeLoraine in the lead and Edsall four minutes behind.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/3070/jjedsall.htm (2065 words)

	The War Years
		At the same time, S.O.E. (HMAS WARRNAMBOOL) was informed by light and HMAS DELORAINE by R/T. Communication was maintained with DELORAINE throughout but S.O.E’s R/T was not apparently working at any time in the passage from Sydney to the time of this happening.
		In arrival on the quarter of the convoy, course was altered to 150° and a large patch of phosphorescence investigated.
		At the same time it is observed that the A/S operator who had been warned against H/E of torpedoes and is a keen rating, was investigating the port side for hydophone effect at the time the track was seen and he states he heard nothing.
	www.hmasmildura.freeservers.com /war_years.htm (1951 words)

	Canon Frederick Riley
		See also a postcard of St Mark's Deloraine taken at about this time on the Tasmanian Education Department website.
		The interior of St Mark's, Deloraine, Tasmania, taken at the time Fred Riley was Rector c1909.
		1913: Frederick Riley was appointed Chaplain of HMAS Australia by the Archbishop of Melbourne.
	avelle.com /Users/BillRoberts/FamilyHistory/Riley/FredRiley_set_2.htm (416 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Bathurst class Minesweepers
		HMAS Armidale (J 240) (lost 1 Dec, 1942)
		HMAS Geelong (J 201) (lost 18 Oct, 1944)
		HMAS Wallaroo (J 222) (lost 11 Jun, 1943)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=141 (117 words)

	The War Years - Page 2
		HMAS BUNBURY collided with HM Submarine SEA ROVER, December 17, 1944
		HMAS CASTLEMAINE collided with a Manly ferry, August 11, 1942
		Tubby Walsh (ex MILDURA) was a survivor the collision between aircraft carrier HMAS MELBOURNE and destroyer HMAS VOYAGER off the New South Wales coast in February 1964.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~mildura/war_years_2.htm (2207 words)

	Bathurst class corvette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armament Variable but including in general, one 4 inch gun, one 40mm Bofors AA gun, two single 20mm Oerlikon guns, and as many as forty depth charges.
		[Restored HMAS Castlemaine] [list and history of all this class of ships]
		This page was last modified 03:12, 29 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bathurst_class_corvette (104 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot RAN Combatant Ships In WW2 List
		HMAS Vampire - Sunk in Bay of Bengal 1942
		HMAS Geelong - Sunk in Collision New Guinea 1944
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	www.gunplot.net /shiplists/shiplistb.htm (235 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMAS Deloraine Sinks Japanese Submarine I-124 60 miles west of Darwin on 20th January, 1942.
		This occurred just 6 weeks after Pearl Harbour and about 8 weeks after the loss of HMAS Sydney.
		I-124 was the first Japanese Naval unit to fall victim to the Royal Australian Navy.
	www.arach.net.au /~realart/imageww2/delor.htm (48 words)

	Navy League of Australia - State Divisions
		Course was altered at 1250 to investigate a floating object bearing 356 degrees, and at 1300 object was identified as a sand hill on Bathurst Island which had been partially obscured by a rain squall.
		Course was reset at 256 degrees at 1300 to reach the signalled position and I estimated that Deloraine would be in that position at 1336.
		At 1335.5 I moved out to starboard wing of bridge prior to giving the necessary orders to alter course to 323 degrees to close aircraft which had just been sighted.
	navyleag.customer.netspace.net.au /sd_05del.htm (1506 words)

	Imperial Submarines
		The DELORAINE turns hard starboard at full speed and the torpedo passes ten feet astern.
		The DELORAINE rolls a depth charge close alongside of the I-124.
		After the action, the DELORAINE claims two, and the KATOOMBA one, submarine sunk.
	www.combinedfleet.com /I-124.htm (924 words)

	Biographies: Commemorative Mission 60th Anniversary of Victory in Europe 1945-2005
		Reg trained at the naval station HMAS Cerberus to be a stoker and, receiving his first sea posting, joined the heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra.
		After leaving Castlemaine, he went to Melbourne where he joined the corvette HMAS Deloraine and served in the waters near Borneo and Rabaul.
		Reg was then sent to England in HMAS Kanimbla, where he waited for the first Australian aircraft carrier, HMAS Sydney, to be handed over to the RAN.
	www.dva.gov.au /commem/2005/bio/bios_3.htm (2258 words)

	About Facts Net
		Australia’s greatest wartime naval loss, the sinking of HMAS Sydney in November 1941, followed an engagement with the German raider Kormoran.
		Japan’s entry into the war increased the threat and on 20 January 1942 the corvette HMAS Deloraine sank a Japanese submarine off Darwin.
		Both missed their target but one exploded beneath the depot ship HMAS Kuttabul, a former Sydney ferry, killing 19 Australian sailors and two British sailors and injuring another 10 sailors.
	aboutfacts.net /War16.htm (641 words)

	1941 - RAN IN THE PACIFIC WAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Also fortunate was the destroyer HMAS VENDETTA which had been immobilised and under repair in dry dock at Singapore at the time of the attack.
		On 29 September the new destroyer HMAS ARUNTA sank the Japanese submarine RO33 off Port Moresby, thereby removing a major threat to the logistic support for Australian troops.
		While supporting commando operations in Timor the destroyer HMAS VOYAGER was lost in September 1942 as was the corvette HMAS ARMIDALE in December.
	www.eurekatimes.net /ran_in_the_pacific_war.htm (2633 words)

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