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	HMAS Sydney
		Sydney continued in action against the Italian convoys and participated in bombardments of the Libyan coast before leaving Alexandria in January 1941 for Australia.
		Arriving in Sydney, the ship’s commanding officer, Captain John Collins, RAN, and his crew were greeted by enthusiastic crowds and given a civic reception: their success at Cape Spada had made them ‘the toast of the country’.
		On 17 November, HMAS Sydney sailed south for Fremantle.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /waratsea/HMASsydney.html (987 words)

	HMAS Kangaroo in Australian Waters during WW2
		HMAS Kangaroo was damaged and had one sailor, Norman R. Moore (S3584), killed during the raid.
		HMAS Kangaroo was repaired and returned to duties on 5 June 1942.
		HMAS Kangaroo was later used as a net layer and as an accommodation ship for base staff.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/ran/hmaskangaroo.htm (238 words)

	CDNN :: Deep Mystery - Finding the HMAS Sydney
		Mearns has been researching the Sydney since 2003, but was hired this month by the Finding Sydney Foundation, a group of volunteers leading the latest search for the RAN ship sunk off Western Australia by a German raider in November 1941.
		Mearns had this decoded by Peter Hore, a former Royal Navy captain, linguist and author of HMAS Sydney II: The Cruiser and the controversy in the archives of the United Kingdom.
		The pride of the RAN, the Sydney was a 7300-ton battle cruiser, with its crew drawn from all around the nation.
	www.cdnn.info /news/industry/i050228.html (1346 words)

	HMAS SYDNEY (III) - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		SYDNEY began her first patrol of the Korean War on 4 October in the western theatre, transferring four days later to the east coast for special operations on 10/11 October.
		SYDNEY experienced the most critical phase of the typhoon from 5:00 pm to midnight on 14 October, winds exceeding 68 knots being encountered (the true wind recorder failed at 68 knots).
		SYDNEY remained in commission until 1958, conducting training cruises around the Australian coast and to New Zealand, and took part in one SEATO exercise in Far Eastern waters in September and October 1956.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/sydney3.html (2819 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.
		On 29 June 1939 the cruiser commissioned in the RAN at Portsmouth as HMAS PERTH under the command of Captain Harold B Farncomb MVO RAN.
		Four sailors were recovered from captivity in September 1944 when they were among prisoners-of-war rescued after the sinking of a Japanese transport.
	www.hmasperth.asn.au /Perth_1.html (2025 words)

	NEXT GENERATION OF NAVAL SHIPS TO REFLECT A RICH HISTORY OF SERVICE
		HMAS Canberra was one of two 10000 ton County Class heavy cruisers ordered by the Australian Government as part of a five year naval development program begun in 1924 and completed in 1929.
		In 1996 her homeport was transferred from Sydney to HMAS Stirling, in Western Australia from which she continued to operate in support of Australia's national interests in South East Asia and the Southern Ocean.
		HMAS Hobart (I) was a modified Leander Class light cruiser of 7105 tons, commissioned on 28 September 1938 under the command of Captain R.R. Stewart, RAN.
	www.blackanthem.com /TheAllies/military_2006012104.html (3196 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.
		When Sydney was relieved and left the Mediterranean on 11 January 1941, and on her return to Australia, these sailors were drafted off Sydney to other ships, before HMAS Sydney was tragically lost in the action with the German raider ship Kormoran off our North West coast on 19 November 1941.
		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 (3358 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - HMAS WHYALLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMAS Whyalla was anchored in Sydney Harbour on 31 May 1942 when the Japanese midget submarines attack took place.
		In December 1944, she was engaged in minesweeping operations off the southeast coast of Australia.
		In 1945, HMAS Whyalla was attached to the British Pacific Fleet and formed part of the occupying forces that received the Japanese surrender of Hong Kong.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/whyalla.htm (374 words)

	The Collins Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		In May 1944, the then Captain Farncomb was in command of the escort carrier HMS Attacker, taking part in the invasion of southern France and operations against the Germans in the Aegean Sea and Greece.
		In 1943 he was promoted Captain and assumed command of the cruiser HMAS Australia, flagship of Commodore Collins, in March 1944, and died of wounds he sustained in the same attack, that severely injured his Squadron Commander.
	submarinesaustralia.com /plank_images_collins/planks_cc.htm (2695 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA WW2 Cruiser
		H.M.A.S. Possibly the ship with the most colourful World War II history was HMAS Australia, fondly known as "The Aussie".
		HMAS Australia was needed badly by the R.A.N for she was the last surviving seaworthy member of the country's heavy cruiser fleet the rest having been sunk and Hobart badly damaged.
		Despite extensive damage she joined HMAS Shropshire and other US units to aid in the bombardment of San Fernando and Poro Point.
	www.gunplot.net /aussie/hmasaussie.html (1076 words)

	HMAS Matafele
		HMAS Matafele, originally a small cargo and passenger ship which had been built by Burns Philp to travel around the New Guinea coastline, was commissioned into the RAN on 1 June 1943, the only RAN vessel ever to be commissioned at sea.
		In late October 1944, a Naval Board of Enquiry concluded that the ship may have been overloaded, had put to sea beyond its permitted ‘deadweight’ and that it must have foundered.
		The addition of gun mountings and extra ballast both have a detrimental effect on the vessel’s range of stability by increasing displacement and reducing free board nor was allowance made for two new water tanks built into the ship’s hold in Brisbane.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /waratsea/HMASmatafele.html (393 words)

	History - HMAS Albatross (Royal Australian Navy)
		In 1944, the British Admiralty directed forces to the South-West Pacific necessitating shore base establishments in Australia to support the Royal Navy and its Fleet Air Arm.
		HMAS Albatross was commissioned in August 1948 and the 20th Carrier Air Group, comprising Sea Fury and Firefly aircraft, was brought from England to Australia by HMAS Sydney.
		The helicopters now based at HMAS Albatross have restored to the RAN much of the anti-submarine capability lost when the Tracker squadron was disbanded in 1983.
	www.navy.gov.au /establishments/albatross/history.html (417 words)

	Last head of navy to be knighted - smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Joining HMAS Sydney in Plymouth, he returned to Australia with her in 1949, the year he married for the first time.
		Returning to Australia on HMAS Tobruk, he joined HMAS Sydney as fleet navigation officer and when HMAS Melbourne arrived in Australia, was transferred to her.
		He watched his wife launch HMAS Sydney in Seattle in 1981 and arranged the purchase of the British carrier, HMS Invincible, a deal which to his great disappointment did not proceed.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/08/14/1060588530566.html (914 words)

	HMAS Sydney (1944) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMAS Sydney was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier laid down by HM Dockyard Devonport in England as HMS Terrible (R93) on 19 April 1943, and launched 30 September 1944.
		Sydney, and her sister ship, HMCS Magnificent, were the first Majestic class carriers completed after the war because they were the most advanced ships of the class at the war's end.
		She was equipped with Hawker Sea Fury fighters and Fairey Firefly attack aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Sydney_(1944) (392 words)

	Sigintel History - HMAS Sydney
		This submission was provided to the recent Parliamentary Inquiry into the circumstances of the 1941 sinking of HMAS Sydney by the German raider Kormoran.
		The purpose of this Submission is to provide the Inquiry with a description of the conduct of signals intelligence (Sigint) at the time of the sinking of HMAS Sydney, and an explanation of the involvement of DSD in the management of Sigint-related records dating from that period.
		In November 1991, DSD requested a total of 218 excisions be made to a series of messages dating from 1 May 1940 to 31 December 1941 prior to their public release.
	www.dsd.gov.au /sigint/hmas_sydney.html (4168 words)

	Fairey Firefly FR.5 by Mike Prince (Grand Phoenix / Kitbash 1/48)
		In 1948 HMAS Sydney was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), followed thereafter by HMAS Vengeance (on loan from the United Kingdom) then HMAS Melbourne in 1955.
		In October 1951 Sydney deployed to Korea to relieve HMS Glory with 805 and 808 Squadrons embarked, both equipped with Sea Furies, along with 817 Squadron equipped with Firefly FR5s.
		I have assumed the aircraft was in the same common scheme of Extra Dark Sea Grey and Sky with blue spinner, fl and white stripes around the outer wings and aft fuselage, with the side numbers contrasting the fuselage stripes and prominent serials beneath the wings that have been partially obliterated by the stripes.
	hsfeatures.com /features04/fireflyfr5mp_1.htm (3070 words)

	Royal Australian Navy - Free net 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.
		In November 1941, Sydney was sunk with the loss of all hands (645 officers and men) after a battle with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, off the coast of Western Australia.
		At the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in October 1944, HMAS Australia became the first Allied ship to be hit by a kamikaze.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Royal_Australian_Navy (1737 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003f Surface vessels (1940-1944) > Aircraft carriers - Light aircraft ...
		However, it took another six years of work before she was ready to enter service, due to the decision to modify the ship to contain the latest developments in aircraft carrier technology - angled flight deck, steam catapault and mirror landing sight.
		On 28 October 1955 she was renamed HMAS Melbourne [1] in a ceremony performed by Lady White, wife of the then Australian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, Sir Thomas White and commissioned as the flagship of the Royal Australian Navy.
		Melbourne was paid off on 30 June 1982 and laid up at Sydney, was sold to China United Shipbuilding Company Limited in February 1985 and broken up in the port of Dalian in China where it is suspected she had been studied to help design a Chinese aircraft carrier.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/photolibrary/index.php?cat=1284 (1677 words)

	History of the RAN Fleet Air Arm
		As SYDNEY could not operate Sea Venoms and Gannets the ship changed to a training role and later became a troop carrier taking men and material to the war in Vietnam.
		The troop transport HMAS Sydney was the first RAN ship to have operational service in Vietnam.
		Sydney was a former air craft carrier that had served in the Korean War.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-air-support/history-fleet_air_arm.htm (1391 words)

	Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Reports: Inquiry into the loss of HMAS Sydney
		Even had Sydney triumphed against Kormoran, Gill writes: 'it is improbable that it would have been without damage and casualties, and Captain Burnett would have been unable to explain the risks he ran'.
		Robertson wrote of the 'mystery' surrounding the loss of Sydney, especially the loss of its entire complement of officers and men compared with a high rate of survival on Kormoran, adding that the mystery 'has attracted the attention of amateur historians, resulting in a misleading version of Sydney's loss'.
		However, rather than producing any consensus among the historical researchers, the Forum served to accentuate the differences between them, and to entrench in some quarters the view that there was a cover-up at the highest levels, a cover-up in which some historians had become unwitting partners.
	www.aph.gov.au /house/committee/jfadt/sydney/Sydch_2.htm (3930 words)

	Australian Navy Ships--HMAS Australia (1928-1955)
		HMAS Australia, a 9850-ton heavy cruiser of the British Kent class, was built at Glasgow, Scotland.
		On 8-9 June 1944, she was flagship of the task force that pursued Japanese destroyers off Biak.
		HMAS Australia was sold for scrapping in January 1955.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/austral/aussh-ag/austr2.htm (557 words)

	Nowra
		HMAS ALBATROSS is located in Nowra on the south coast of New South Wales.
		The primary role of HMAS ALBATROSS is to support the Fleet Air Arm that provides aircraft and air support to the fleet.
		HMAS ALBATROSS was commissioned on 31 August 1948 and the 20th Carrier Air Group, comprising Sea Fury and Firefly aircraft, were brought from England to Australia by HMAS SYDNEY.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/australia_nowra.html (454 words)

	Australian Navy Ships--HMAS Hobart and HMS Apollo (1936-1962)
		Transferred to Australia in late September 1938, she was then renamed HMAS Hobart and served in Australian waters during the remaining peacetime months.
		HMAS Hobart was sold for scrapping in February 1962 and was subsequently broken up in Japan.
		In the harbor at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with the Harbor Bridge in the background, 20 March 1947.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/austral/aussh-hl/hobart.htm (702 words)

	The War Years
		It was the I-21 that damaged the liberty ship, Peter H. Burnett, which the MILDURA successfully towed back to Sydney, and the MILDURA pursued the I-21 after it torpedoed the Iron Knight off Narooma in February 1943.
		At the same time, S.O.E. (HMAS WARRNAMBOOL) was informed by light and HMAS DELORAINE by R/T. Communication was maintained with DELORAINE throughout but S.O.E’s R/T was not apparently working at any time in the passage from Sydney to the time of this happening.
		In arrival on the quarter of the convoy, course was altered to 150° and a large patch of phosphorescence investigated.
	www.hmasmildura.freeservers.com /war_years.htm (1951 words)

	Scoop: Next Generation Naval Ships Reflect Rich History
		Canberra (I) HMAS Canberra was one of two 10000 ton County Class heavy cruisers ordered by the Australian Government as part of a five year naval development program begun in 1924 and completed in 1929.
		Hobart (I) HMAS Hobart (I) was a modified Leander Class light cruiser of 7105 tons, commissioned on 28 September 1938 under the command of Captain R.R. Stewart, RAN.
		Sydney (I) Sydney (I) (1913-28) was a Town Class light cruiser built in the United Kingdom.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0601/S00283.htm (3517 words)

	HMAS Shropshire
		I went on to join Shropshire as a Lieutenant in 1944, and was present in her, at the Japanese Surrender in Tokyo Bay on the 2nd of September 1945.
		My father was sick berth attendant on HMAS Gascoyne and was transferring injured crew to Shropshire when she was sent to Surigao Strait action.
		I am attempting to confirm that my late father was a member of HMAS Shropshire's crew at the time of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hmas_shropshire.htm (1381 words)

	Untitled Document
		In 1944, the British Admiralty directed certain Naval forces to the South West Pacific area, and this of course necessitated the provision of shore base establishments for the Royal Navy and its Fleet Air Arm in Australia.
		HMAS Albatross was commissioned on 31 August 1948 and the 20 Carrier Air Group,comprising Sea Fury and Firefly aircraft, were transported from England to Australia onboard the carrier HMAS SYDNEY.
		The Fleet Air Arm has in service the SeaHawk helicopter which restored to the RAN many of the capabilities lost when the Tracker Squadrons disbanded in 1983, and is currently negotiating the purchase of 11 Kaman SH.2G(A) Super Seasprite helicopters to enhance the war fighting capability of the new ANZAC class frigates.
	seaspritecentral.50megs.com /Australia.htm (550 words)

	Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Reports: Inquiry into the loss of HMAS Sydney
		If the body was indeed that of one of HMAS Sydney's crew, there was a strong feeling that it should no longer lie in an unmarked grave in a remote part of the Indian Ocean.
		For those who argue that the Christmas Island carley float was from HMAS Sydney, the work of Dr John Bye, an oceanographer at the Flinders Institute for Atmospheric and Marine Research, Flinders University of South Australia, is of particular interest.
		However, even on these percentages, several sailors on HMAS Sydney could potentially have had 'perfect teeth', and this is reinforced by claims of several relatives that the body might be their family member.
	www.aph.gov.au /house/committee/jfadt/sydney/Sydch_7.htm (12725 words)

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