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	Royal Australian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Commissioned as HMAS Melbourne she entered into RAN service in 1956, and provided fixed-wing capability to the fleet until her decommissioning in 1982.
		HMAS Westralia will be replaced by a second hand commercial oiler that is presently being converted, and is due to enter service in 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Australian_Navy (1871 words)

	HMAS Fremantle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first HMAS Fremantle (J-246/M-246) was a Bathurst class corvette built by Evans Deakin and Company Brisbane in Queensland launched on 18 March 1942 by Mrs.
		HMAS Fremantle paid off to reserve 22 June 1959 and was sold for scrap to Kinoshita Company of Japan on 6 January 1961.
		The second HMAS Fremantle (P-203) is the lead ship of the Fremantle class patrol boats down by Brooke Marine at Lowestoft in England on 11 November 1977 launched on 16 February 1979 and commissioned on 15 March 1980.
	www.freeglossary.com /HMAS_Fremantle (548 words)

	Brief Encounter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Close encounter 1: In UFOlogy, a '''close encounter ''' is an event where a person observes evidence o 3: Close encounter s are categorized into three degrees or "kinds", o 5: to human technology, can all be considered close encounter s of the first kind.
		Encounter at Farpoint 1: '''"Encounter at Farpoint"''' was the first episode of '' Star 11: 29: n the auxiliary bridge.
		Random encounter 1: '''Random encounter s''' is a feature commonly used in computer and 3: tics of the player character.
	www.swingdancemusic.com /send/1663-brief%20encounter.html (610 words)

	Sea Power Centre - Australia
		ENCOUNTER was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 21 November 1905.
		In November 1918 she was despatched to Samoa and other Pacific islands on a Relief Expedition during the influenza epidemic which spread through the Pacific islands in that year.
		ENCOUNTER's hull was towed to sea and sunk off Sydney on 14 September 1932.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/encounter.htm (231 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		encounter theory encounter theory, in astronomy, see solar system.
		Shielding is also provided against encounters with micrometeorites and cosmic radiation that could damage the spacecraft or be a health hazard for its occupants.
		Archimedes' principle Archimedes' principle, principle that states that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=HMAS+Encounter (397 words)

	Royal Australian Navy
		The second Penguin was the former light cruiser HMAS Encounter, part of the Australian Fleet that entered Sydney Harbour for the first time on 4 October 1913.
		Encounter was renamed Penguin on 1 January 1923 and assumed responsibilities as the Navy's depot and accommodation ship at Garden Island.
		HMAS Countersunk, a damage control simulator - built from scrap recovered from the battle-damaged HMAS Australia and HMAS Hobart - was constructed on site and, until well into the 1980s, as part of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence School, it continued to train officers and sailors in the art of battle damage repair.
	www.navy.gov.au /establishments/penguin/penguin_history.htm (895 words)

	Encyclopedia: Royal Australian Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft).
		The second HMAS Sydney was a modified Leander-class light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy.
		HMAS Terrible (R93) was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier laid down by HM Devonport Dockyard at Plymouth in England 19 April 1943, launched 30 September 1944.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Australian-Navy (3622 words)

	Australian Naval uniforms: RAN and earlier
		Hill was posted to HMAS Yarra in July 1914 and took part in the seizure, from Germany, of New Britain by the Australian Navy and Military Expeditionary Force.
		Hill was posted to HMAS Yarra in July 1914 and took part in the seizure, from Germany, of New Britain by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force.
		He transferred to the RAN in 1915 and served in HMAS Torrens in European waters for the rest of the war.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-uniforms/aussie-naval.htm (1228 words)

	Dominic Florence O'Sullivan
		Served on HMAS Cerberus as Ordinary Seaman from 26/6/13 to 15/8/13, (probably for training), and on HMAS Encounter as Ordinary Seaman from 16/8/13 to 3/8/15 and as Able Seaman from 4/8/16 to 7/8/16.
		Following the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the Light Cruiser, HMAS Encounter was part of the force which occupied German New Guinea.
		In October, HMAS Encounter patrolled the Fiji-Samoa area, capturing the German schooner Elfrede.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~cerberus/osullivan.html (1018 words)

	William Evan Allan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He served on board the HMAS Encounter till the end of the war and became an able seaman in 1915.
		When he was eighteen he survived the Spanish flu pandemic that killed over fifty of his shipmates on the Beramba’s voyage between Cape Town and Sierra Leone.
		Allan went on to serve on HMAS Adelaide in World War II, sailing in convoy with HMS Repulse and also HMS Hood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Evan_Allan (414 words)

	NAVY News :: Top Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In July, 1915, he joined the light cruiser HMAS Encounter, which shortly thereafter sailed on a four-month patrol of the South West Pacific, where Fiji was utilised as a base for operations.
		He suffered from shock caused by immersion and contusions to one leg, the latter the result of the heavy seas bumping his body against the cruiser’s hull when he was hauled back onboard.
		His colourful careeer continued when, in 1937, Evan was honoured as one of a select group of 25 senior sailors chosen as the naval detachment of the Australian Coronation Contingent that embarked in the SS Oronsay in February 1937 for passage to England to attend the coronation of King George VI.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/navynews/editions/4820/topstories/story01.htm (1339 words)

	The Diary of Albert Edward Knaggs R.A.N.
		HMA Submarine AE2 left Barrow-in-Furness with HMS Adamant as escort at 10pm on 10th Feb 1914.
		HMAS Encounter bombarded Herbert (sands?) further along the coast from Rabaul, troops were landed and after a short fight against German Officers and native soldiers the place was captured by our troops and Naval Brigade with a loss of 1 Officer and 6 Men killed.
		Able Seaman Naggs (sic.) of H.M.A. Submarine A.E.2 died at Bozanti Hospital, and was buried on the 6th, he died from Acute Dysentry (sic.).
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jeffery.knaggs/diary.html (6257 words)

	Australian Military Units
		After long service on the Australia Station with the Royal Navy, HMS Encounter was lent to the RAN as a training cruiser, pending the completion of HMAS Brisbane.
		In October, Encounter patrolled the Fiji-Samoa area, capturing the German schooner Elfrede.
		During this period she attended to the stricken Cumberland, which had struck a mine off Gabo Island on 6 July 1917, and searched the wreck of the raider Seeadler at Mopelia Island in September 1917.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_10622.asp (352 words)

	Victorians at War - Oral History Project - Archives
		That’s … see the Encounter was a coal burner and after we started the search for the German raiders a collier would be appointed to meet you at a certain point and you would have to coal ship … sometimes 300 tons, 400 tons, and more … and that was a dreadful job.
		Seamanship was the main aim of it, teach you to handle boats and become … one of the ship’s company in exercising and allotted to torpedo drill or gunnery drill or whatever it may be.
		And we were on … and Johnston Island is infested with bird life and when we were stationed … we were aground on the reef, they all invaded the ship … their droppings, oh it was dreadful.
	victoriansatwar.net /archives/allent1.html (5434 words)

	Malice Aforethought
		Born in Bega in New South Wales in July 1899, Mr Allan enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy as a boy sailor at the outbreak of World War I when he was only 14 years old.
		As an able seaman, he was a member of the crew of HMAS Encounter from 1915 until 1918.
		Mr Allan retired from the navy in 1947 with the rank of lieutenant.
	www.sennoma.net /main/000307.php (269 words)

	Technicalities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mr Allan was born in Bega in NSW in July 1899 and enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy as a boy sailor at the outbreak of World War I, serving as a member of the crew of HMAS Encounter from 1915 until 1918.
		HMAS Encounter also took part in the search for the German raider, Wolf, which was causing havoc among allied shipping.
		He recalled his time at sea as a sailor, and recounted an incident where he was washed overboard from the forecastle of HMAS Australia in 1928, spending a nervous three minutes in the water before being rescued.
	technicalities.mu.nu /archives/126857.php (654 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)

	Photo Memories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The closure of the HMAS ENCOUNTER (formerly TORRENS) necessitated the removal of the Naval Memorial Plaques from the garden dedicated to the memory of naval ships, activities and personnel.
		These WWII veterans representing the Allied Chinese Ships' Association, who visited HMAS RANKIN at Port Adelaide on Sunday 25th August, express their thanks and appreciation for the way in which the duty Officers and Crew entertained them and explained the intricacies of modern day submarine life.
		We were all very impressed with the state of the boat, complexity of equipment and the enthusiasm of crew members.
	members.dodo.net.au /~mervynw/photos.htm (328 words)

	1914 - Rabaul and Sydney / Emden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the outbreak of war in August 1914 the Australian fleet consisted of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, the light cruisers HMAS Melbourne, HMAS Sydney and HMAS Encounter, the small cruiser HMAS Pioneer, the destroyers HMAS Parramatta, HMAS Yarra and HMAS Warrego, and the submarines HMAS AE1 and HMAS AE2.
		On 7 September the force, consisting of Australia, Sydney, Encounter, Parramatta, Warrego, and Yarra, AE1, AE2, a store-ship, three colliers, and the transport Berrima (with the ANMEF embarked), sailed for Rabaul and Australia’s first joint operation.
		His party encountered a series of enemy trenches and came under fire from snipers positioned in the trees.
	www.eurekatimes.net /Australian%20Defence/Royal-Australian-Navy/rabaul_and_sydney__emden_1914.htm (1871 words)

	Media Release - The Hon. De-Anne Kelly MP, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence
		He was a member of the crew of the Australian light cruiser HMAS Encounter from 1915 to 1918.
		During that time, Encounter conducted patrols in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and escorted troopships to Colombo.
		Encounter also took part in the search for the infamous German raider, Wolf, which had been causing havoc with Allied shipping in the region.
	minister.dva.gov.au /media_releases/2005/10_oct/va160.htm (536 words)

	AE1 submarine - First Squadron in New Guinea 1914
		At 0345 hours, Colonel Watson requests 'Encounter' shell positions in the Gire Gire Plantation area.
		'Encounter' shells the area mentioned at 0600 using 6 inch naval guns.
		The British Flag was hoisted in 'Proclamation Square' Rabaul, at 1500 hours, 13th September 1914.
	www.ae1submarine.com /First_Squadron.html (258 words)

	Australian Military Units
		In order to prevent harbours in these territories being used by the fleet, Australia and New Zealand were requested by Britain, on 6 August 1914, to dispatch forces to occupy them.
		A force of New Zealand troops, escorted by HMA Ships Australia and Melbourne, HM Ships Psyche, Philomel, Pyramus, and the French cruiser Montcalm landed on the Samoan island of Apia on 30 August 1914.
		On 11 September 1914, a force consisting of HMA Ships Australia, Sydney, Encounter, Warrego, Yarra, Parramatta, submarines AE1 and AE2, a store-ship, three colliers, and the Berrima with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force embarked, arrived off Rabaul.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_145.asp (322 words)

	HMAS Encounter - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		HMAS Encounter - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		William Evan Allan enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy at the outbreak of the war when he was just 14.
		He served as a seaman on the HMAS Encounter from 1915 to 1918.
		His ship, the Encounter, also took part in the search for the German raider Wolf, which caused havoc with Allied shipping in the region, the statement said.
	www.bennyhinn.org /dsinc/3_ds_27175.html (332 words)

	RootsWeb: GENANZ-L HMAS Encounter - JOPE, John C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HMAS Encounter died February 29 1916, aged 46 years.
		HMAS Encounter - JOPE, John C. by "Jacqui Conn" < >
		Re: HMAS Encounter - JOPE, John C. by "Patrick O'Neill" < >
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/GENANZ/1998-01/0884481957 (157 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot RAN 20th Century Almanac
		Battle Cruiser HMAS Australia launched on the Clyde.
		Williamstown Naval Depot commissioned as HMAS Cerberus 1 July.
		HMAS Encounter lent by the Admiralty and commissioned into the RAN as HM Australian Ship.
	www.gunplot.net /randiary/ranmilennium.html (494 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The flagship, HMAS Australia, was released from Royal Navy service and sailed from Portsmouth on April 23, 1919.
		The ship stopped in Fremantle, Western Australia on May 28, on the way to her final destination of Sidney.
		After an investigation, five seamen were charged with partaking in a mutiny, and were court martialed onboard HMAS Encounter in Sydney Harbour.
	www.bobhenneman.info /HMAS%20Australia%20Mutiny.htm (413 words)

	RAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first Australian warship, the torpedo boat destroyer HMAS Parramatta,was launched at Govan in Scotland onWednesday 9 February 1910 and the secondship, the torpedo boat destroyer HMAS Yarra, was launched at Dumbarton in Scotland on Saturday 9 April 1910.
		The manpower of the fleet stood at four hundred officers and men and, for the next two years, ships were builtfor the fledgling navy.
		On Saturday 4 October 1913 the first fleet review of the Royal Australian Navy took place, the battle cruiser HMAS Australia, the cruisers HMAS Melbourne and HMASSydney, the protected cruiser HMAS Encounter and the torpedo boatdestroyers HMAS Parramatta, HMAS Yarra and HMAS Warrego, entered Sydney Harbour to a tumultous welcome.
	www.therfcc.org /ran-137753.html (520 words)

	Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Under the command of Colonel William Holmes, the AN&MEF departed Sydney aboard the P&O liner Berrima and halted at Palm Island off Townsville until the New Zealand force, escorted by the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, cruiser HMAS Melbourne and the French cruiser Montcalm, occupied Samoa on 30 August.
		Sydney and the destroyer HMAS Warrego landed small parties of naval reservists at the settlements of Kabakaul and Herbertshöhe, south-east of Rabaul.
		The German administration had withdrawn inland to Toma and at dawn on 14 September, HMAS Encounter bombarded a ridge near the town, while half a battalion advanced towards the town, supported by a field gun.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Australian-Naval-and-Military-Expeditionary-Force.htm (769 words)

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