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	HMAS Deloraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Deloraine (152 words)

	HMAS Lithgow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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)

	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)

	RAN in WW2
		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)

	Corvettes 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With HMAS LAUNCESTON and HMIS JUMNA she attacked and sank Japanese submarine RO-410 off Vizagapatam 11 February 1944.
		Served in RN Pacific Fleet in 1945 and was in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender.
		Rescued survivors from HMAS VOYAGER, and HMAS ARMIDALE.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~mildura/corvettes_4.htm (673 words)

	HMAS Katoomba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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)

	Print Article: We will remember them
		HMAS Bataan Assemble King St. Reunion Mascot RSL.
		HMAS Quickmatch Assemble cnr King & Castlereagh sts.
		HMAS Shoalhaven Assemble Castlereagh St. Reunion Macquarie Hotel.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/04/22/1082616262298.html (1528 words)

	Navy League of Australia - State Divisions
		There was no difficulty experienced in holding the two contacts and at 1610 I sighted Lithgow approaching from Eastward, so turned to meet her in order to lead her to position.
		At 1620 I altered course leading Lithgow to position, and at 1630 asked him for his DR position to allow me to check my own.
		I notified Lithgow at 1700 that I had passed over position and immediately hauled out of line to take position and act as directing vessel for her.
	navyleag.customer.netspace.net.au /sd_05del.htm (1506 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)

	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)

	Corvette Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Bathurst class Minesweepers
		HMAS Armidale (J 240) (lost 1 Dec, 1942)
		HMAS Geelong (J 201) (lost 18 Oct, 1944)
		HMAS Warrnambool (J 202) (lost 13 Sep, 1947)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=141 (117 words)

	Australia Under Attack 1942-1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		HMAS Lithgow, commissioned in June 1941, reached Darwin on 19 January, 1942.
		The next morning Lithgow assisted two other RAN corvettes and the USS Edsall in sinking the Japanese submarine I-124.
		It was the Japanese Navy’s first loss to the RAN.
	www.awm.gov.au /underattack/enlarge.asp?image=2/2/1/6 (41 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.
		"Lithgow" and "Katoomba" arrived later in the afternoon while "Deloraine" headed for Darwin for more depth charges.
		Lieutenant Bruce Johnston Harvey (RANVR) of HMAS Deloraine, was awarded a DSC for his "skill and resources in HMAS Deloraine when the Japanese submarine I-124 was destroyed off Darwin on 21 January 1942."
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/japsubs/i-124.htm (372 words)

	Where we live
		HMAS Creswell and the College from the air - Oct 2002.
		The bells which ring every half hour are ship's bell times - to a maximum of eight, when they start again.
		HMAS Creswell, the Royal Australian Navy's College for officer training.
	www.users.bigpond.com /talewis/Where_we_live.html (230 words)

	Imperial Submarines
		That afternoon, while taking on fuel from the oiler BRITISH SAILOR, the ALDEN is ordered to accompany the EDSALL to the location of the earlier attack.
		The LITHGOW and the KATOOMBA patrol another area.
		The overpressures created during the depth charge attacks deform the thin seals of the I-124's hatch gaskets and she takes on water.
	www.combinedfleet.com /I-124.htm (924 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.
		Lieutenant E Germaine holding swords and dirks carried by the Japanese envoys who attended preliminary surrender discussions aboard the destroyer HMAS Vendetta, at sea off Rabaul, on 4 September 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.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /vevp/g_surrenders.html (285 words)

	Prime Minister - Sir Joseph Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After the couple’s first child was born in 1886, Mary Cook joined him in Lithgow, New South Wales, where both her husband and her brother worked in the coalmines.
		In May 1891, Cook became president of the Lithgow branch of the Labor Electoral League, forerunner of the Labor Party and at the election the following month, he won the local seat of Hartley in the New South Wales parliament.
		By the time their fourth son, John Hartley, was born in 1897, Joseph and Mary Cook had bought their own house in central Lithgow.
	gavmag.com /australia/pm_cook.htm (1858 words)

	HMAS DELORAINE - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		HMAS DELORAINE 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.
		The attack continued and after DELORAINE had expended all of her charges, she was joined by her two sister ships HMAS KATOOMBA and HMAS LITHGOW, before departing to reload with depth charges from HMAS VIGILANT.
		Post war investigation of Japanese records showed that the first attack had been successful, and DELORAINE, KATOOMBA, LITHGOW and EDSALL were officially credited with destroying the Japanese submarine I-124.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/deloraine.html (958 words)

	CONTACT Newsletter - Blue Mountains Vietnam Veterans & Associated Forces Inc.
		HMAS Perth served as an integrated unit of the US Seventh Fleet, much of her deployment spent on “Operation Sea Dragon”.
		HMAS Perth was the only ship in the Vietnam conflict to be hit by enemy fire.
		Upon his return to Australia, Tom changed to the Writer branch and was posted to the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, where his duties were in the pay and personnel offices.
	users.bigpond.net.au /jbuckley/newsletter/previous_issues/issue.2004.6.html (4765 words)

	Two attacks on suspected Japanese submarines by U.S. Navy Subchaser SC 648 of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in Australian ...
		On 23 May 1943, in company with HMAS Vendetta, SC 648 made a submarine attack outside Moreton Bay, but with no results.
		Ted Treadwell 's assessment was that they must have attacked a sunken vessel and in their excitement merely thought it was moving.
		On the 7 July 1943 when they were in a convoy enroute from Gladstone to Brisbane, one of the escorts, HMAS ML 429, made a depth charge attack on a suspected enemy submarine and SC 648 and HMAS Lithgow left station to assist.
	home.modemss.brisnet.org.au /~dunn/japsubs/2attackssc-648.htm (436 words)

	Dingy Remembers
		Eighty-one-year-old Alex "Dingy" Bell sat down with his mates of the Clearance Divers Association at the Kirribilli RSL Club on ANZAC Day and remembered the day in 1944 when a Japanese fighter strafed his landing craft and he lost his right eye.
		He remembered the day in 1934 he crossed the gangway of HMAS CERBERUS to join the Navy.
		But his most poignant memories of his career in the RAN were brought back to him a few days earlier on the wharf of HMAS PENGUIN, the Navy's primary diving school at Mosman in Sydney.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/navynews/editions/1999/05_03_99/story01.htm (584 words)

	Halverson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Halvo and Hampson I think were school mates and I believe Greg came from Lithgow.
		He was a real stirrer and was in fact the 1st bloke I had a fight with after I joined up.
		he loved going up there to Lithgow nearly every second weekend, I used to go with him on the odd occasion, but this time I reneged and a guy called GIBSON (also on our WM course) went with him, and they picked up Halvo's girlfriend along the way somewhere.
	www.leeuwin32nd.com /halverson.htm (987 words)

	Royal Australian Navy in World War II - minesweepers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The action produced one the RAN's wartime heros, AB "Teddy" Sheean, who gave up his life to continue operating an Oerlikon gun in defence of his shipmates as they abandoned the sinking vessel.
		As at 1999, the hull of HMAS Whyalla has been placed on static display outside her home town in South Australia; volunteers have restored HMAS Castlemaine almost to her original condition, and she lies as a floating museum and tribute in Melbourne.
		HMA Ships Alfie Cam, Beryl II, Durraween, Goolgwai, Goorangai, Goonambi, Korowa, Mary Cam, Olive Cam, Patricia Cam, Samuel Benbow, Tongkol.
	users.sa.chariot.net.au /~lenshome/minesweepers.htm (1464 words)

	Corvette Links
		There were 60 Australian Minesweepers built during World War II, 36 for the Royal Australian Navy, 20 for the Royal Navy (but manned by Australians), and 4 for the Royal Indian Navy.
		HMAS ARARAT used a "K" prefix in honour of Canadian Corvette "Gladiolus" K34 which was sunk before ARARAT was built.
		Only 2 corvettes are still in existence, HMAS CASTLEMAINE as a floating museum ship at Williamstown, Victoria, and HMAS WHYALLA as a tourist display at Whyalla, South Australia.
	www.hmasmildura.freeservers.com /Corvette_links.htm (176 words)

	BLUE MOUNTAINS
		We travel to the coal mining City of Lithgow on the NW fringe of the Blue Mountains.
		The great Lithgow Zig Zag with its magnificent steam engines takes us through tunnels and over magnificent sandstone viaducts.
		Ulladulla is a fishing port where every Easter Sunday the fishing fleet is blessed, where prayers are said for the safety of the fleet and crews over the year then a fantastic carnival and fire works display are held to top off the day.
	www.hotkey.net.au /~barrettscoaches/blue_mountains.htm (965 words)

	Australia's Military Preparedness: One Man's View [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Martin Bryant was a one time aberration, a countries defence of its civilian population is its most important duty, it has to be prepared every day of the year to carry out that defence.
		Lithgow Small Arms Factory (which has now been privatised) has historically never conducted any of its own development work.
		You were able to point up the East Timor job with, from our viewpoint, hardly any effort, and were able to quickly put a robust force in the field under a competent commander and with reasonable ROE.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39af9cd96fa1.htm (8867 words)

	Image Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As the upgraded guided missile frigate HMAS SYDNEY leaves ADI’s Captain Cook Graving Dock following hull repairs, she passes ADI tradespeople conducting hull repairs on the replica of Captain Cook’s 18th century ship Endeavour.
		Also in port at Garden Island are HMAS KANIMBLA (left), the Endeavour replica under repair in the company’s floating dry dock and HMAS TOBRUK (back right).
		Tugs begin moving the guided missile frigate HMAS SYDNEY from the Captain Cook Graving Dock at ADI Limited’s Garden Island facility after the company completed hull repairs ahead of schedule.
	www.adi-limited.com /list_images.asp (610 words)

	The Z Machine! Wooden Bullets & Yellow Ribbons Hemingway and Dietrich? Chimps and Gorillas & More!
		But halfway to the heads that mark the entrance of the harbor HMAS Sydney stopped and sat dead in the water.
		Greenpeace said in a statement it had stopped HMAS Sydney from leaving by using a flotilla of yachts, small craft, swimmers, and divers.
		Hollywood April 07, 2003 (Hollywood Reporter) - John Lithgow is set to play writer-director Blake Edwards and Stanley Tucci has signed to portray late filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in HBO's "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers," a biopic of the late British actor.
	richlabonte.net /exonews/xtra2/z_machine.htm (7093 words)

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