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	HMAS Katoomba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Katoomba (142 words)

	hmas deloraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMAS Deloraine (J-232/M-232), named for the town of Deloraine in 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.
		Deloraine, in company with USS Edsall, HMAS Katoomba and HMAS Lithgow, attacked and sank the enemy Japanese submarine I-124 on 20 January 1942, the first enemy submarine to be sunk in Australian waters.
		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.yourencyclopedia.net /HMAS_Deloraine.html (174 words)

	HMAS Lithgow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMAS Lithgow (J-206/M-206), named for the city of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia was a Bathurst class corvette built by Morts Dock and Engineering at Balmain, 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Lithgow (121 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.
		Bendigo, Bowen, Broome, Bunbury, Colac, Echuca, Glenelg, Gympie, Kapunda, Katoomba, Latrobe, Lithgow, Pirie, Wagga and Whyalla.
		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.
	www.battleforaustralia.org.au /corvettes.html (1920 words)

	Actions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	world war 2 pictures weapons warship royal australian navy
		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)

	RAN in WW2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 19 July 1940 HMAS Sydney was involved in the best known action of the Mediterranean campaign when off the coast of Crete, she came to the rescue of a British destroyer division on anti-submarine patrol that was being engaged by two Italian Cruisers.
		HMAS Vampire was also the first Australian vessel to engage the Japanese navy when on the night of 26-27 January 1942 she, along with HMS Thanet attacked Japanese naval units off Endau, Malaya..
		HMAS Yarra was given the responsibility of escorting a small convoy to Australia, but on 4 March was intercepted by a force of three Japanese cruisers and two destroyers.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/ran_ww2.htm (978 words)

	HMAS Kanimbla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first HMAS Kanimbla was laid down as a motor 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.
		HMAS Kanimbla paid off at Sydney on 25 March 1949 and returned to her owners on 13 December 1950.
		The second HMAS Kanimbla (L-51) is a training and helicopter originally built as the Tank Landing Ship USS Saginaw for the United States Navy by the National Steel and Shipbuilding at San Diego in California.
	www.freeglossary.com /HMAS_Kanimbla (629 words)

	HMAS Jervis Bay -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first HMAS Jervis Bay was a passenger-cargo ship built by the State Dockyard at (Click link for more info and facts about Newcastle, New South Wales) Newcastle, New South Wales as the Australian Trader and launched on 17 February 1969.
		The second HMAS Jervis Bay was a wave piercing (A sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck) catamaran built by INCAT in (An Australian state on the island of Tasmania) 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.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMAS_Jervis_Bay3.htm (206 words)

	Navy League of Australia - State Divisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Katoomba approached and signalled to me at 1748, and I passed all possible information to her.
		At 1927 Katoomba ordered me to proceed to meet Vigilant to emb9rk depth charges and return to meet him at scene of defunct submarine at daylight next day.
		From daylight until 1155 I acted under Katoomba's order; and during that time fired my remaining eleven depth charges in combined attacks with her.
	navyleag.customer.netspace.net.au /sd_05del.htm (1506 words)

	HMAS Kapunda - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Kapunda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMAS Kapunda - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Kapunda.
		HMAS Kapunda (J-218/M-218), named for the town of Kapunda in South Australia, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole and Steele at Balmain in New South Wales on 27 August 1941, launched on 23 June 1942 by Mrs.
		HMAS Kapunda paid off to reserve on 14 January 1946, was declared for disposal on 30 December 1960 and sold for scrap to Kinoshita (Australia) on 6 January 1961.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMAS-Kapunda.html (188 words)

	HMAS Katoomba
		Katoomba was my first Australian ship, perhaps more importantly, it was the first ship I was posted to for "ship's duties", as opposed to "for training", and I became the ship's navigator.
		At this time the tedium for constant convoy duties was over and the ship was engaged in helping rid the Barrier Reef of mines, laid mostly by the RAN, to protect the coastal route against intrusion by Japanese Submarines.
		On most occasions, Katoomba was the rear ship whose job it was to lay danbuoys which marked the edge of the swept area.
	www.warbooks.com.au /IndividualBooks/hmaskatoomba.html (210 words)

	State bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMAS Kapunda (J-218/M-218), named for the town of Kapunda in South Australia, was a Bathurst class corvette laid down by Poole and Steele at Balmain in New South Wales on 27 August 1941, launched on
		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
		HMAS Kiama (J-353/M-353), named for the town of Kiama on the south coast of New South Wales, was a Bathurst class corvette built by Evans Deakin and Company at Brisbane in Queensland, launched on 3
	www.elexi.de /en/s/st/state.html (967 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)

	The Australian Merchant Navy \| McIlwraiths \| McIlwraith McEacharn Limited
		and while all steadily went about their "lawful occasions", Katoomba and Kanimbla were the most visible vessels of the Company in the defence of Australia and the repulse of the enemy threat during the early 1940s.
		Katoomba had before 1939 already seen war service as a requisitioned vessel, operating through many of the world's ports as a troopship, and returnee prisoner-of-war carrier from May 1918 to September 1919.
		Katoomba was returned to her owners from requisition early in 1946, but was then sold without resuming her coastal trading role.
	www.merchant-navy-ships.com /index.php?id=14,17,1,1,1,0 (413 words)

	Scenic World Blue Mountains Australia - Local History
		While the development of the Katoomba Coal Mine was proceeding in 1880, North had a prospector named Garbutt, prove the outcrops of Kerosene Shale on the Eastern side of the Narrow Neck, discovered there by Campbell 9 years before.
		In 1925 a group of Katoomba Businessmen formed a syndicate to lease the mine from John North's estate and extract the "slack" or small coal that was considered not big enough to take from the mine and had been left my North's miners stacked up as roof supports.
		The Mayor of Katoomba, Aub Murphy, anxious that such a plan would not escape the Blue Mountains and especially Katoomba, asked Harry if he was interested because he was leasing the land at the western end of what could be the new ropeway.
	www.scenicworld.com.au /info_localHistory.asp (6410 words)

	Transcript - Horrors in Wrecked Rabaul - Lost Lives - The Second World War and the islands of New Guinea
		HMAS Manoora was undergoing overhaul at Garden Island, Sydney, when orders were received that she had to be completed and ready for sea by a certain date.
		Miraculously the jobs were completed, stores and ammunitions came aboard, crew recalled from leave began to report, fuming at the cut in their leave; and on the day ordered we left Garden Island, swung compasses and in the afternoon slipped through Sydney Heads and headed north.
		HMAS Vendetta, immediately after the surrender, had brought out to Jacquinot Bay a number of European ex POWs for hospital treatment and onward air passage to the mainland.
	www.jje.info /lostlives/transcripts/D00022.html (2138 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)

	NAVY News :: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	USS S-39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the afternoon word came from Australia that HMAS Katoomba would arrive the following morning to lend aid.
		The two men pulled in the lines and secured them to one of the torpedoes, which was resting on the reef.
		By 1000 on 16 August Katoomba’s boats had made three trips to shore and all hands were safely aboard the ship.
	www.csp.navy.mil /ww2boats/s39.htm (659 words)

	NAVY News :: Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first HMAS Katoomba served as a Bathurst class ship in WWII and served afterwards until 1958 (according to my research).
		Also, I seem to remember that there was an earlier HMAS Katoomba which served around the time of the colonial navies, but I can’t seem to find much info on this.
		HMAS Defiant was the ship in the TV series Patrol Boat.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/EDITIONS/4803/letters.htm (239 words)

	USS S-39 - Gallant Lady of the Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thirty-two sailors had reached the rocks via the lifeline when the HMAS Katoomba arrived shortly after noon.
		HMAS Katoomba's boats made three trips ashore and safely rescued all hands.
		On August 19 the Katoomba returned to Townsville and the S-39's crew were assigned to other submarines.
	thesaltysailor.com /s-boats/s39.htm (608 words)

	History of The Mountain Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In September 1935 The Herald reported that The California was “the largest and most palatial guesthouse in the Southern Hemisphere, with hot and cold water in each room, a ballroom, an in house entertainer and a permanent orchestra." By 1939 one member of the consortium, Miss Annie Rogers, had bought out the others.
		The charm and facilities of Mountain Heritage were strongly marketed by the government at the time in their attempt to recruit additional labour to assist in the war effort.
		After the war, the property was purchased by the Australian Government to house British Navy personnel and their families who were recruited by the Australian Navy to work on the new aircraft carriers HMAS Sydney and HMAS Melbourne.
	www.mountainheritage.com.au /hotel-history.htm (873 words)

	Corvette Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	Significant ships in South Australia's maritime history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 19 July 1940, the then Captain Collins was in command of the cruiser HMAS Sydney in the Mediterranean when she engaged the two Italian cruisers Bartolomeo Colleoni and Giovanni Delle Bande Nere off Cape Spada in Crete.
		On 21 October 1944, while HMAS Australia was taking part in the allied landings in the Philippines, Commodore Collins was severely wounded in a suicide attack by Japanese aircraft.
		HMAS Collins was launched on 28 August 1993, and was handed over to the RAN on 15 July 1996.
	www.picknowl.com.au /homepages/malcolm/shippass.htm (11861 words)

	Contacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMAS OVENS at the WA Maritime Museum was the venue for the Saturday morning "Get Wellers" and brunch was served from 0900 -1300 for those that wished to stroll down memory lane on OVENS.
		CPORSSM HMAS OTWAY, ONSLOW, ORION and OTAMA 1970 — 1984.
		WOAWASM HMAS ORION, OXLEY, OTWAY, OTAMA and FARNCOMB 1978 — 1994.
	www.submarinesaustralia.com /newsletters/in_depth_jul_02.html (11151 words)

	Sports Fresh : Article 'HMAS Kanimbla' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 (830 words)

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