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	Kalgoorlie. Who is Kalgoorlie? What is Kalgoorlie? Where is Kalgoorlie? Definition of Kalgoorlie. Meaning of ...
		Kalgoorlie is a large Western Australian mining town located about 600 km east of Perth.
		The town of Kalgoorlie and the shire of Boulder amalgamated on February 1, 1989 to become the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
		For eastward train travellers, on the trans-continental 'Indian Pacific' service, Kalgoorlie is the last town encountered for hundreds of miles before entering the vast expanse of the Nullarbor Plain.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Kalgoorlie (269 words)

	HMAS Jervis Bay - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Jervis Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first HMAS Jervis Bay was a passenger-cargo ship built by the State Dockyard at Newcastle, New South Wales as the Australian Trader and launched on 17 February 1969.
		The second HMAS Jervis Bay was a wave piercing catamaran built by INCAT in Tasmania and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy for logistics operations in May 1999.
		HMAS Jervis Bay was returned to her owners in May 2001.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMAS-Jervis-Bay.html (221 words)

	HMAS Voyager - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		HMAS Voyager ran aground at Betano on Timor on 23 September 1942 and was abandoned.
		The second HMAS Voyager (D-04) was a Daring-class destroyer laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company Limited at Sydney in New South Wales on 10 October 1949, launched on 1 May 1952 by Mrs.
		HMAS Voyager collided with the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne twenty miles south-east of Jervis Bay on the New South Wales coast on the night of 10 February 1964.
	www.iridis.com /HMAS_Voyager (189 words)

	Lost
		HMAS Yarra was sunk on 4 March 1942,approximately 500 kilometres south of central Java (modern Indonesia).
		HMAS Nestor was part of a Mediterranean convoy, ‘Operation Vigorous’, with five cruisers and 11 other destroyers when the convoy was attacked by German bombers on 14 June 1942.
		HMAS Nestor was one of five ‘N’ class destroyers loaned to the Australian Government by the British.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /waratsea/lostG.html (2774 words)

	world war 2 pictures weapons warship royal australian navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		HMAS Karu was subjected to attack by 44 planes in 23 attacks with some 200 bombs being directed at her with the closest being 5 ft. away.
		HMAS Kalgoorlie was dispatched from Darwin on the morning of the 9th and sighted the whaler at 1657 hrs, picking up the 29 survivors within an hour, returning to Darwin at 1125 hrs on the 10th.
		HMAS Rockhampton was detached to escort the remainder of the convoy, and Castlemaine took Grey Lag in tow at 5 knots.
	www.hmascastlemaine.com /world%20war%202%20pics%20hmas%20castlemaine%20warship%20minesweeping%207.htm (10808 words)

	Hmas Sydney - 03/03/1994
		HMAS Australia, which was part of the Allied forces, did not take part in the Battle of Jutland, giving to HMAS Sydney the role of the most notable achievement and engagement of the Royal Australian Navy in the first world war.
		Those were the circumstances in which HMAS Sydney was able to enter into the theatre of war and achieve the greatness which she did in those early years of the war.
		HMAS Sydney took part in a number of engagements - including the bombardment of Bardia - a lot of convoy duty and one engagement with a destroyer, the Espero, which I think is worth noting.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC19940303021 (6430 words)

	1942 December 1st
		Kuru finds the other two ships in the morning and transfers her passengers to HMAS Castlemaine; Castlemaine is then ordered to a position some 120 miles south of Betano Bay to look for two RAAF Beaufighter aircrew who were in the water after crash landing.
		This signal so puzzled his superiors, when the loss of the ship was latter investigated, that is was classified and not shown to the board of inquiry or the prime-minster; in fact the whole matter was covered up which is a shame because it prevented a brave man from receiving the Victoria Cross he deserved.
		HMAS Armidale had been hit by two air launched Torpedoes and was listing heavily and sinking; the captain had given the order to abandon ship.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1942/12/01.htm (884 words)

	HMAS Junee - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Junee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		HMAS Junee (J-362/M-362), named for the town of Junee in New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole and Steele at Balmain in New South Wales on 17 February 1943, launched on 16 November 1943 by Mrs.
		Rosevear, wife of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and commissioned on 11 April 1944.
		HMAS Junee paid off to reserve at Fremantle in Western Australia on 21 August 1957, and sold for scrap to Mr.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMAS-Junee.html (154 words)

	Actions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
	www.nw.com.au /~stella/actions.htm (1727 words)

	ABC Western Australia » Defence Forces Contingent - Navy
		The ex HMAS Sydney (WA) Association are mainly Western Australian sailors that served in the Royal Australian Navy's cruiser HMAS Sydney from her commissioning in 1935, in her service in Australian waters, and during her service in the Mediterranean, during 1940/1941.
		HMAS Bataan was originally to be called the Tribal class destroyer Kurnai but in honour of the battle for Bataan Island being waged, was renamed HMAS Bataan.
		HMAS SYDNEY was deployed on 25 missions to Vietnam over seven years and covered 346000 miles carrying 16094 troops, 2337 vehicles and 5753 tons of cargo.
	www.abc.net.au /wa/anzac/sea.htm (3355 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)

	HMAS Kalgoorlie - Royal Australian Navy History
		HMAS KALGOORLIE was one of sixty Australian Minesweepers (commonly known as corvettes) built during World War II in Australian shipyards as part of the Commonwealth Government’s wartime shipbuilding programme.
		Having transferred to Darwin, KALGOORLIE was employed on further convoy escort duties between Thursday Island and Darwin.
		KALGOORLIE continued to operate in the forward areas until she arrived in Brisbane of 15 July 1945 for refit.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/kalgoorlie.htm (630 words)

	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - WA Snapshots
		Organised by the Mount Hawthorn Progress association, it was erected to commemorate the landing of Australian Forces at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.
		HMAS Sydney (1934—41) was a light cruiser of the British modified Leander class.
		A Kalgoorlie Branch was formed in 1921 although country work did not expand until the incorporation of the Bush Nursing Trust into Silver Chain in 1944.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /wa_snapshots (9969 words)

	RDU magazine online
		The magnificent memorial to the HMAS Sydney at Geraldton, W.A., subtly and perfectly tagged to acknowledge Rotary’s input.
		With a population of 32,000, Kalgoorlie was the largest remote centre visited on the tour.
		Forrest was almost exactly two hours from Kalgoorlie and given its location close to the western border of South Australia, it is best described as “that place in the middle of nowhere”.
	www.rotarnet.com.au /Magazine/articles/NOV2003/30.html (740 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On 19 August 1947 HMAS Hobart arrived back in Sydney from its final deployment in Japan as a unit of the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (BCOF) and prepared for her decommissioning.
		The young fellow in the adjacent hammock was Bert Hewitt from Kalgoorlie.
		It was fortunate that this facility was intact and available for our ships, as Kure was a principal Japanese naval base, and had suffered badly from heavy aerial bombing toward the end of the war.
	www.navalinstitute.com.au /journal/article_vol_113.htm (5993 words)

	Corvette Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		HMAS ARARAT used a "K" prefix in honour of Canadian Corvette "Gladiolus" K34 that was sunk before ARARAT was built.
		RAN Corvettes were named after provincial Australian cities and towns (except HMAS GLENELG which was named after a suburb of Adelaide).
		Only 2 corvettes are still in existence, HMAS CASTLEMAINE as a floating museum ship at Williamstown, Victoria, and HMAS WHYALLA as a land based tourist display at Whyalla, South Australia.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~mildura/Corvette_links.htm (210 words)

	Corvettes 4
		Rescued survivors from HMAS Voyager, and HMAS Armidale.
		Sold to the Dutch navy in 1946 as "Ternate", renamed "Patti Unis" in Indonesian Navy.
		Convoy duty East Coast and minesweeping in Darwin.
	www.hmasmildura.freeservers.com /corvettes_4.htm (69 words)

	JRTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The RAN developed HMAS Leeuwin in East Fremantle to provide basic, general and academic training and ‘character development’ for junior naval recruits.
		This position was located initially in Fremantle and later at HMAS Stirling on Garden Island off the WA coast.
		HMAS LEEUWIN opened as a Junior Recruit Training Establishment on 13th July 1960.
	leeuwin17th.idx.com.au /JRTE.htm (364 words)

	Remembering 1942: HMAS Armidale, 1 December 2002 [Australian War Memorial]
		This is one of a series of Roll of Honour talks to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the events of 1942 and this afternoon I will be speaking about what happened to the men who were on board the corvette, HMAS Armidale when she was sunk off Timor on 1 December that year.
		The plan was for two corvettes, Armidale and HMAS Castlemaine, to sail to Betano Bay and rendezvous with HMAS Kuru.
		When HMAS Kalgoorlie reached them the next afternoon the exhausted crew of the whaler found the strength to climb the scrambling nets but their legs turned to jelly when they touched the deck.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/armidale/transcript.htm (1879 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 spending some time with his family in Australia, he was posted to another corvette, HMAS Castlemaine, and served in the waters of northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
		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)

	Crabbe Family Pages - Gershom Crabb of St Ive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		1947 at Kalgoorlie, WA, AUS ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ +-- Maurice Charles CRABB (1011036) ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ +-- Arlene Mabel CRABB (1010628), b.
		03 December 1934 at Kalgoorlie, WA, AUS, bur.
		20 December 1908 at Kalgoorlie, WA, AUS ¦ ¦ +-- Dorothy Muriel CRABB (1010433), b.
	crabbe.accessgenealogy.com /TreesAll/ChartsTMG/Dc101b.htm (13905 words)

	Print Article: Island's tourism birth a date with history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Another Garden Island relic is the tiny penknife that 21-year-old able seaman William Lamshed used 60 years ago to save the lives of 29 crew from HMAS Armidale, which was torpedoed off Timor on December 1, 1942.
		They patched holes with their shirts and trousers and Lamshed used his knife to whittle the wooden seats into a rudder so they could steer a course for Darwin.
		Just 150 kilometres from the city, they were finally rescued by HMAS Kalgoorlie.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/11/21/1037697802931.html (491 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)

	D.E.S.S. Home Page
		HMAS Swan the major overhaul of 2 x 1Mw Paxman auxiliary Diesel generators.
		HMAS Geraldton To remove and refit auxiliary engine and realign main gearbox.
		HMAS Hobart docked at Garden Island Sydney, to supply service engineers to carry out overhaul on Starboard main generator a 1Mw Detroit.
	www.dess.com.au /content/projects.html (766 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Boy and was drafted to HMAS Cerberus and HMAS Pioneer before joining the destroyer HMAS Parramatta on 14 April...
		HMAS Voyager was lost on the south coast...
		Her crew were rescued by HMAS Warrnambool and HMAS Kalgoorlie without loss of a man. When...
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?refid=ency_botresults&q=HMAS%20Sydney%201912 (372 words)

	Sports Fresh : Article 'HMAS Kanimbla' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		HMAS Kanimbla (L-51), a converted tank landing ship (LST) currently in commission as an amphibious transport ship (LPA).
		The first HMAS Kanimbla (1936) was laid down as a motor vessel for McIlwraith McEachern Limited by Harland and Wolff Limited at Belfast in Northern Ireland in July 1933, launched on 15 December 1935 and completed on 26 April 1936.
		The ship operated a passenger service between Cairns in Queensland and Fremantle in Western Australia until the outbreak of World War II when she was converted to an armed merchant cruiser at Sydney and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Kanimbla on 6 September 1939.
	www.sports-fresh.net /DisplayArticle674088.html (488 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot Armidale Survivors story
		Day 6 and the motor boat mob was picked up by HMAS Kalgoorlie but of course we didn’t know this at the time.
		We enjoyed a good sleep as Kalgoorlie conveyed us to Darwin and the hospital where we were united with the Captain and his mob from the motor boat.
		The Kalgoorlie crew brought two strops and put them under and round our whaler and brought it to the mine-sweeping winch.
	www.gunplot.net /sheeanarmidale/armidalesurvivor2.htm (3907 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Bathurst class Minesweepers
		Only 2 of these ships are still in existence, HMAS Castlemaine as a floating museum ship at Williamstown, Victoria, and HMAS Whylla as a tourist display at Whyalla, South Australia.
		HMAS Wallaroo (J 222) (lost 11 Jun, 1943)
		HMAS Warrnambool (J 202) (lost 13 Sep, 1947)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=141 (117 words)

	HMAS Armidale 1 - Royal Australian Navy History
		HMAS ARMIDALE was one of sixty Australian Minesweepers (commonly known as corvettes) built during World War II in Australian shipyards as part of the Commonwealth Government’s wartime shipbuilding programme.
		Later the same day, contact was made with the patrol vessel HMAS KURU, Darwin bound with 70 evacuees.
		HMAS KALGOORLIE located and rescued the occupants of the whaler.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/armidale1.htm (498 words)

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