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	HMAS Perth [Australian War Memorial]
		The Loss of HMAS Perth, 1 March 1942
		HMAS Perth was built at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Amphion on 15 June 1936.
		Of the Perth's company of 686, only 218 were repatriated.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/perth (108 words)

	Perth 1 History
		Subsequently the cruiser HMAS ADELAIDE paid off and her crew, who were to man the new addition to the RAN, left Australia for the United Kingdom on 15 May 1939 in SS AUTOLYCUS.
		From 9 to 20 February PERTH was in dock at Alexandria for partial repair of the damage sustained at Malta the previous month.
		PERTH had barely steadied on course when she was struck on the starboard side by a torpedo.
	www.hmasperth.asn.au /Perth_1.html (2025 words)

	United States Navy Meritorious Commendation to HMAS Perth
		When PERTH was engaged by enemy shore batteries on two occasions, the combination of her crew members' spirited teamwork and capable leadership produced quick and precise evasive action to spare the ship any material or personnel casualties.
		PERTH's high accurate fire inflicted heavy losses on enemy assets and was instrumental in assuring the success of allied operations wherever she was stationed.
		The outstanding performance, superlative accomplishments, and inspiring devotion to duty displayed by the officers and men of HMAS PERTH throughout her deployment, reflect credit upon themselves and the Royal Australian Navy.
	www.vvaa.org.au /perth1.htm (342 words)

	HMAS Perth
		HMAS Perth and USS Houston returned to Tanjong Priok at 2.30pm on Saturday 28th February, 1942 after the Battle of the Java Sea.
		PERTH was low on 6" and the 4"AA were firing star shells and practice rounds to make it look like they had plenty of ammunition left.
		PERTH was hit by four torpedoes over the next 15 minutes and at 0025 on 1st March 1942, she finally sank a few miles north of St Nicholas Point at the entrance to Sunda Strait.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /ships/hmas/perth.html (439 words)

	NAVY News :: Top Stories
		Perth was launched in the presence of dignitaries including the Minister for Defence Senator Robert Hill, Chief of the Defence Force, General Peter Cosgrove, Chief of Navy, VADM Chris Ritchie, and Maritime Commander, RADM Raydon Gates.
		HMAS Perth I, the former HMS Amphion, was commissioned into the RAN on 29 June 1939, serving in the Mediterranean, returning to Australia for refit, then serving in the Battles of the Java Sea and Sunda Strait, where she was sunk by torpedoes.
		Perth I was in the Mediterranean in 1940 and was involved in the Battle of Matapan and the evacuation of Crete and Greece.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/navynews/editions/4705/topstories/STORY01.HTM (976 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: HMAS Anzac (FFH 150)
		HMAS Anzac (D-59) was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Nacy, laid down by the Williamstown Naval Dockyard at Melbourne in Victoria on 23 September 1946, launched on 20 August 1948 by Mrs.
		HMAS Brisbane was a Town class light cruiser laid down by HMA Naval Dockyard at Cockatoo Island at Sydney in New South Wales on 25 January 1913, launched on 30 September 1915 by Mrs Andrew Fisher, wife of the Prime Minister of Australia, and commissioned on 31 October 1916.
		HMAS Burdekin (K-376), named for the Burdekin River in Queensland, was a River class frigate laid down by Walkers Limited at Maryborough in Queensland, launched on 30 June 1943 by Miss K Collings, daughter of the Minister for the Interior and Leader of the Government in the Senate and commissioned o..
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMAS-Anzac-%28FFH-150%29 (1623 words)

	HMAS Perth. Lost in tragic circumstances
		He was serving in HMAS Perth during the Battle of Matapan, which took place off Greece and Crete from 28 to 29 March 1941.
		Whilst in port at Malta, PERTH was strained by a near miss in an air raid.
		At the time of her loss Perth's ship's company totalled 681, comprising 671 naval personnel, six RAAF personnel (for operating and servicing the aircraft) and four civilians (canteen staff) Three hundred and fifty naval personnel (including Captain Waller) and three civilians did not survive the sinking.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/hmas_perth.htm (2149 words)

	WW2 Nominal Roll
		Indeed, the light cruiser HMAS Perth was in the Atlantic Ocean when war broke out and served for the first six months in the Caribbean.
		It was in the Indian Ocean that the German raider Kormoran sank HMAS Sydney in November 1941, the worst Australian naval loss of the war.
		HMAS Perth was the only Australian warship sunk in enemy waters whose survivors were taken prisoner.
	www.ww2roll.gov.au /doc/overview.asp (3053 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot Loss Of HMAS Perth WW2
		Perth's Ship's Company new that there were large Japanese forces north of Java closing in on them as they sailed that afternoon from Tandjeong Priok in company with Houston.
		Perth's four 6" turrets went to independent control in a frantic attempt to engage as many of the enemy as possible that surrounded her.
		Perth remained unscathed and she launched her torpedoes into the congested sea, multiple hits were observed, and she was taking a toll on the enemy.
	www.gunplot.net /perthww2/Perth.htm (1046 words)

	Survivor recalls forgotten heroes of HMAS Perth - theage.com.au
		Just eight hours after the engagement began, HMAS Perth and the USS Houston were all that remained of a hastily cobbled together Allied fleet of five cruisers and nine destroyers.
		Mr Manning, of Magpie, near Ballarat, recounted those last moments of HMAS Perth at the 60th anniversary commemoration at the Shrine of Remembrance, because, as he says, "this story is practically unknown".
		Yet, as he told the crowd gathered for the commemoration, HMAS Perth's stand was one of the two or three most courageous battles of the Royal Australian Navy in the war.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/09/04/1031115884408.html (378 words)

	USS Newport News CA-148 Naval Research - John Marek HMAS Perth DDG-38 Dossier
		HMAS Perth veteran John Marek is compiling a dossier of RAN (Royal Australian Navy) ships' service in Vietnam, with monthly ROP's (Reports of Proceedings) as a primary source.
		Perth was in station 2 miles ahead of NEWPORT NEWS in position 19 Deg 34’N - 105Deg 59.5’E. The Task Unit was carrying out intensive surveillance of river mouths as it proceeded northward for a planned firing mission later in the forenoon.
		The destroyer H.M.A.S. Perth and the cruiser US Newport News were engaged by 12, 85 or 100 mm batteries, which fired up to 200 rounds at them at a range of 16,500 yards while they were investigating a group of fishing junks near Chau Pai south of Sam Son.
	www.tranhungdaotrip.com /PerthMarek671018.html (2955 words)

	ENGLAND 1939 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMAS PERTH commissioned in June 1939 under the command of Capt. H.B.Farncomb MVO.
		The Coat of Arms of the city of Perth was slung between the barrels of 'Y' turret and the name "HMAS PERTH" placed underneath.
		HMAS PERTH spent the rest of the month in trials in the Solent off the Isle of Wight and on the 26th July sailed from Portsmouth for New York.
	www.spruso.com /1england.htm (365 words)

	Fall of Java: 'Perth and Yarra sunk during Java action'
		HMAS Perth was sunk in the Sunda Strait just north of Java on the night of 28 February/1 March 1942.
		Perth and the USS Houston were sunk during an attack on Japanese convoys by American, British and Dutch ships.
		HMAS Yarra, which was sunk three days after Perth, had returned from escort duties in the northern hemisphere after the outbreak of the Pacific war.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /japadvance/sunk.html (752 words)

	Dive Sites of Western Australia
		HMAS Perth was scuttled on 24 November 2001 in about 40 metres of water, making her the largest deliberately scuttled vessel with the intention of creating an artificial reef for recreational divers.Water temperature here ranges from mid-teens to low 20's.
		The Perth was built as a guided missile destroyer and during her career has steamed more than 1 million nautical miles and has the dubious distinction of being the only RAN ship to be hit by enemy fire during the last 50 years.
		The HMAS SWAN is a River Class Frigate Destroyer Escort built on the 16th of December 1967.
	www.scubabooksonline.com /divewesternaustraliasites.htm (536 words)

	HMAS Perth & USS Houston
		This ceremony is held on the nearest Saturday to March 1st to remember the loss of HMAS PERTH on 1st March 1942 in the battle of Sunda Strait.
		HMAS PERTH and USS HOUSTON arrived at Tandjung Priok on 28th February after day and night actions off Surabaja.
		During the ensuing battle, PERTH was struck by a number of torpedoes and eventually sank.
	www.shrine.org.au /content.asp?document_id=1693 (214 words)

	perth
		HMAS Perth was the last of thee " Modified Leander" Class light cruisers built in England and later transferred to the Royal Australian Navy(RAN).
		Perth was launched in England in 1934 and commissioned in June 1936 as HMS Amphion, From July 1936 to Dec 1938 she served on the South Africa Station based at Simonstown.
		PERTH sailed for Australia in July 1939 and after a brief stay in New York, proceeded to the Caribbean.
	usshouston.org /perth.htm (765 words)

	HMAS Perth
		PERTH is not equipped with a helo deck, and it was for this reason that NEWPORT NEWS came into action as a "middleman." The destroyer pulled alongside the larger ship and a highline was rapidly rigged.
		The wounded men on board PERTH were secured to stretchers and transferred to NEWPORT NEWS across the short, choppy stretch of sea separating the ships.
		Although only in her second day on Operation Sea Dragon, PERTH had previously served as a gunfire support ship in waters south of the Demilitarized Zone.
	home.att.net /~dgoad/perth.html (346 words)

	Diving Perth - Scuba Dive Abrolhos Islands, Rottnest Island, HMAS Swan/Perth Wrecks - Diversion Dive Travel
		Perth is a vibrant, cosmopolitan and modern city, pleasantly situated on the Swan River, with the port of Fremantle a mere 20 kilometres downstream.
		Perth is the sunniest state capital in Australia and the most isolated capital city in the world.
		Perth and the southwest regions have a mild Mediterranean style climate with low humidity and lots of sunshine.
	www.diversionoz.com /en/wa-southeast.htm (946 words)

	Scuba Dive HMAS Perth, Albany, WA - Wreck Diving HMAS Perth - Scuba Dive Travel, Dive Adventures Australia
		Western Australia added to its reputation as one of the World's premier year-round dive destinations when the decommissioned HMAS Perth was scuttled in the pristine waters of King George Sound in Albany in late November 2001.
		The sinking of the former HMAS Perth follows the highly successful scuttling in 1998 of the former HMAS Swan, which has attracted over 20,000 divers to Dunsborough in the State's South-West.
		The HMAS Perth was scuttled on the 24th November 2001 as a dive wreck.
	www.diveadventures.com /pages/destinations/Australia/albany.htm (512 words)

	Commemorative Mission to the United Kingdom - Travel Diary
		Perth spent much of the first six months of the war patrolling in the Atlantic Ocean, mostly on the North America and West Indies Station escorting cargo ships and oil tankers, and searching for German vessels trying to get back to Europe.
		Perth endured daily attacks by German and Italian aircraft during convoys to Malta escorting merchant ships with badly needed supplies, and later also in the Greek campaign.
		Most of his former Perth shipmates went down with the ship in the Battle of Sunda Strait or were taken prisoner of war, with many dying in captivity.
	www.dva.gov.au /media/publicat/2003/london/vbios/milner.htm (771 words)

	ADASTRA AERIAL SURVEYS - Ikara
		HMAS Derwent was fitted with Ikara in November 1965 and the system was also fitted to HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Yarra during refits in 1967.
		HMAS Perth, on which Adastra's involvement with Ikara began, was sunk as a dive wreck off the coast of Albany, Western Australia on 24th November 2001.
		HMAS Torrens (depicted above) was sunk off the coast from Perth, Western Australia on 14th June 1999 in a much-publicised demonstration of a Mark 48 torpedo fired by the submarine HMAS Farncomb.
	www.adastra.adastron.com /projects/ikara.htm (2168 words)

	RAN
		HMAS Farncomb (74) was commissioned in January 1998 and HMAS Waller (75) in July 1999.
		HMAS Dechaineaux (76), HMAS Sheean (77) and HMAS Rankin (78) are due in 2001.
		HMAS FREMANTLE, the first of the class, was built in the UK while the remainder were built in Cairns, close to their primary area of operations by North Queensland Engineers and Agents (NQEA).
	homepage.eircom.net /~steven/ran.htm (1695 words)

	HMAS PERTH (I) - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		On 16 December PERTH arrived at Aden where she re-embarked her aircraft the following morning and then proceeded to take over as escort of a northbound convoy.
		Whilst in port at Malta, PERTH was strained by a near miss in an air raid.
		At the time of her loss PERTH's ship's company totalled 681, comprising 671 naval personnel, six RAAF personnel (for operating and servicing the aircraft) and four civilians (canteen staff) Three hundred and fifty naval personnel (including Captain Waller) and three civilians did not survive the sinking.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/perth1.html (2131 words)

	perth
		HMAS Perth was the last of thee " Modified Leander" Class light cruisers built in England and later transferred to the Royal Australian Navy(RAN).
		Perth was launched in England in 1934 and commissioned in June 1936 as HMS Amphion, From July 1936 to Dec 1938 she served on the South Africa Station based at Simonstown.
		PERTH sailed for Australia in July 1939 and after a brief stay in New York, proceeded to the Caribbean.
	www.usshouston.org /perth.htm (765 words)

	Royal Australian Navy - Cruisers
		These were the "Chatham" class light cruiser HMAS Adelaide, the "County" class cruisers Australia, (flagship) and Canberra, the "Amphion" Class cruisers Sydney, Perth, Hobart and the "County" Class cruiser Shropshire, transferred from Britain in 1943 as replacement for war losses Sydney, Perth, and Canberra.
		HMAS Shropshire ("London" type) was commissioned into the Royal Navy under that name in 1929, but did not join the RAN until April 1943 as a replacement for Canberra.
		Perth was torpedoed four times, and "Hec" Waller was killed along with half his ship's complement; the remainder spent the rest of the war in a Japanese prison camp.
	users.chariot.net.au /~lenshome/cruisers1.htm (1725 words)

	Definition of perth
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		HMAS ''Perth'', commanded by [[Captain H. Waller]], RAN,...
		River]] in the [[Perth County, OntarioCounty of Perth]].
	www.wordiq.com /search/perth.html (721 words)

	Virtual Sailor - Virtual Sailing Simulator
		HMAS BALLARAT I was launched in December 1940 as one of 60 Australian Minesweepers commonly known as Corvettes.
		The HMAS Hobart was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile destroyer in the Royal Australia Navy (DDG 39), built in the United States of America and commissioned in 1965 in Boston.
		HMAS Westralia was built as a Stat 32 class petroleum tanker, and modified for underway replenishment in 1979 for service with the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary as HMS Appleleaf.
	www.avsim.com /vs/boats.php?dzone=nav (1971 words)

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		HMAS Canberra today became the first Adelaide Class Guided Missile Frigate (FFG) to be decommissioned from the Navy after proudly serving her country for 24 years.
		HMAS Canberra has sailed nearly 800,000 miles serving Australia, and has seen active service in the Persian Gulf and conducted operations in areas as diverse as the Southern Ocean and the Solomon Islands, east of Africa and south of Russia.
		HMAS Canberra was one of the first RAN ships to be powered by gas turbine for its main propulsion, which provided the ability to be underway from cold in less than 30 minutes.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/512-20106.aspx (822 words)

	Vietnam - HMAS Perth in action
		HMAS Perth was about to receive her baptism of fire.
		Perth had replaced HMAS Hobart in the Seventh Fleet at Subic Bay on September 14, 1967 and after a short period to facilitate additional preparations for duty off Vietnam she commenced duty south of the DMZ on September 26.
		Perth was settling into a routine and was ready for bigger things.
	www.anzacday.org.au /history/vietnam/perth.html (694 words)

	Royal Australian Navy - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		When it was decided that the RAN should commission ships armed with guided missiles, the obvious British design was the "County" class destroyer; however, the RAN had reservations regarding the gas turbine propulsion, the Seaslug missile system, and being able to adapt the design to Australian needs.
		HMAS Westralia will be replaced by a second hand commercial oiler, to be named HMAS Sirius, that is presently being converted, and is due to enter service in 2006.
	www.voyager.in /Royal_Australian_Navy (2136 words)

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