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	THE HMAS WARREGO STORY
		Warrego was employed on anti-submarine, mine sweeping and local defence duties out of Darwin till the 17/1 when in company with USS Pillsbury they escorted MV Koolama carrying AIF troops bound for Ambon where they arrived on the 22nd.
		On the 19/2/42 Warrego was at anchor in Darwin Harbour.
		After a refit in Brisbane, Warrego resumed to the same duties with the area of operation shifting to the North Coast of NG as the Japs were pushed back and the towns re-taken.
	users.hunterlink.net.au /~ciadm/Warrego/Page3.htm (758 words)

	HMAS WARREGO (II) - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		WARREGO sailed from Darwin on 23 February 1943 and on arrival at Thursday Island resumed her former role as an escort vessel to New Guinea, operating between Townsville, Milne Bay and Merauke.
		WARREGO remained on task assisting the Department of Civil Aviation until 26 June and, supported by KIMBLA and clearance divers from HMAS RUSHCUTTER, salvaged 95 percent of the wreckage of VH-TFB from the seabed.
		WARREGO was declared for disposal in 1964 and on 2 June 1965 was sold to Metal Traders (Australia) Pty Ltd, Sydney.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/warrego2.html (1629 words)

	Australian Military Units
		HMAS Warrego was built in Scotland and then dismantled and shipped to Sydney where she was reconstructed at the Cockatoo Island shipyard to provide it with construction experience.
		Warrego led the Australian destroyer force into Port Jackson as part of the ceremonial entry of the Australian Fleet Unit on 4 October 1913.
		Warrego returned to Australia in February 1915 and was employed on patrol work locally and in Malayan, Philippines and East Indies waters.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_12628.asp (493 words)

	NSW Heritage Office Website - Listing Heritage Items - State Heritage Register - Item View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Former HMAS Parramatta (I) shipwreck and bow and stern memorials The wreck of the former HMAS Parramatta (I) is remarkable for its early associations with the establishment of Commonwealth Naval forces.
		The wreck of the former HMAS Parramatta (I) is of State significance for its early associations with the establishment of wholly-owned and administered Australian naval forces.
		HMAS Parramatta (I) is of State significance for its associations with the nation-wide establishment of the Naval Historical Society of Australia, formed in 1970 as the Garden Island Naval Historical Society.
	www.heritage.nsw.gov.au /07_subnav_02_2p.cfm?itemid=5054727 (3394 words)

	WWIIonline [General Info] - RN/RAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was whilst escorting a convoy that the light cruiser HMAS SYDNEY was detached to investigate the sighting of a strange warship.
		HMAS AE2 became the first allied warship to penetrate the Dardanelles, but was eventually sunk by the Turkish navy in the Sea of Mamora.
		HMAS MORESBY was acquired on loan from the Royal Navy in 1925 for surveying duties.
	users.bigpond.net.au /Windrode/_sgt/m1_1.htm (1342 words)

	HMAS WARREGO (I) - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		HMAS WARREGO was one of six River Class Torpedo Boat Destroyers built for the Royal Australian Navy between 1909 and 1916.
		WARREGO was built in the United Kingdom, then taken to pieces and the parts shipped out to Cockatoo Dockyard, Sydney, where they were re-assembled.
		WARREGO continued to be employed on anti-submarine and escort duties until the end of hostilities in November 1918.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/warrego1.html (1404 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)

	Kamikaze
		The frigate HMAS Gascoyne and motor launch HDML1074 were part of a hydrographic survey group that plotted the approaches to the landing beaches and then the landing ships HMA Ships Kanimbla, Manoora and Westralia were among hundreds of transports and landing craft.
		The cruisers HMA Ships Australia and Shropshire, the latter having been transferred from the Royal Navy as a replacement for HMAS Canberra lost at Guadalcanal in August 1942, and destroyers HMA Ships Arunta and Warramunga were part of the covering force.
		HMAS Gascoyne and HMAS Warrego carried out survey tasks and escort duties in Lingayen Gulf whilst under attack from both enemy aircraft and shore artillery batteries.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /waratsea/kamikaze.html (2026 words)

	Naval Operations 1901-2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMA Submarine AE2 became the first allied warship to penetrate the Dardanelles; her feat was instrumental in the decision not to withdraw the soldiers after the first day.
		HMAS Murchison gained fame whilst operating in the Han River area in September/October 1951, when she was hit by communist shore positions.
		Meanwhile, as HMAS Jervis Bay (II) made her final run to Dili on April 24/25 2001, other units of the RAN were preparing for the major international Exercise Tandem Thrust.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/navynews/editions/2001/10_15_01/story21.htm (4150 words)

	John Vaughan & HMAS Sydney- Part 1
		It is 26 June 1913 and HMAS Sydney is commissioned at Portsmouth.
		July 25, 1913 and HMAS Sydney departs Plymouth under the command of Captain John Collings Taswell Glossop, RN; she is Australia bound.
		In company with the destroyers HMAS Warrego and Yarra, the Sydney heads North to join the Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patey.
	homepages.tesco.net /~pandin/page23.html (3416 words)

	Informat.io on Royal Australian Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		At the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in October 1944, HMAS Australia became the first Allied ship to be hit by a kamikaze.
		By the mid-late 1960s, the RAN was at the zenith of its operational capabilities; it was capable of despatching a full carrier battle group in support of major operations by having in service an aircraft carrier, three large area defence destroyers of the Perth class, six modern "River" class frigates and four Oberon class submarines.
	www.informat.io /?title=royal-australian-navy (1738 words)

	Australian Military Units
		A force of New Zealand troops, escorted by HMA Ships Australia and Melbourne, HM Ships Psyche, Philomel, Pyramus, and the French cruiser Montcalm landed on the Samoan island of Apia on 30 August 1914.
		On 11 September 1914, a force consisting of HMA Ships Australia, Sydney, Encounter, Warrego, Yarra, Parramatta, submarines AE1 and AE2, a store-ship, three colliers, and the Berrima with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force embarked, arrived off Rabaul.
		The second force was involved in a series of short contacts with German forces on its march inland to Bitapaka and finally occupied the radio station there around 7 pm.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_145.asp (322 words)

	Warrego River Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Warrego River is situated in south west Queensland and north west New South Wales, Australia.
		Major flooding is not uncommon along the Warrego.
		Two warships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Warrego after the river.
	www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Warrego_River (148 words)

	HMAS Warrego - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have borne the name of the Warrego River in Queensland.
		The first Warrego was a "River" class destroyer.
		The second Warrego was a Grimsby class sloop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Warrego (104 words)

	Australian Destroyers
		HMAS Parramatta built in Britain in 1910/11 as part of the Acheron Class destroyers and transferred to the Australian Navy.
		HMAS Warrego built in Britain in 1910/11 as part of the Acheron Class destroyers and transferred to the Australian Navy.
		HMAS Yarra built in Britain in 1910/11 as part of the Acheron Class destroyers and transferred to the Australian Navy.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /australian_destroyers.htm (588 words)

	Up Periscope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He was educated by the Christian Brothers at St. Joseph's College Nudgee, in Brisbane before entering the Royal Australian Naval College at the age of thirteen in 1953.
		On return to Australia he served in the survey ship HMAS WARREGO [FF 73], the fleet destroyer HMAS VENDETTA [DD 08] and the Junior Recruits Training Establishment at HMAS LEEUWIN in Western Australia.
		He was commended for rescuing the survivors of the foundered ketch 'One and All' in dramatic circumstances off Middleton Reef in the Tasman Sea.
	submarinesaustralia.com /bios/bioroach.html (688 words)

	Cockatoo Island Dockyard: Ships - HMAS Warrego (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The escort sloop HMAS Warrego was constructed as ship number 132.
		HMAS Warrego was active in the South-West Pacific off northern Australia and around the Philippines as an escort vessel and in survey operations.
		This series of drawings for the hull of HMAS Warrego, like those for HMAS Parramatta held in M2908, includes, in addition to general arrangements, drawings depicting the profile of the hull, forecastle, upper deck, lower deck and hold, and sections.
	www.naa.gov.au /Publications/research_guides/guides/dockyard/pages/chapter03/warrego.htm (201 words)

	SHIP
		John's source for the photograph of USS Houston (at anchor in Darwin) was the wife of the late Ron Beard who saw action while a member of HMAS Warrego’s No. 1 forward gun during the aborted convoy to Koepang and the Darwin air raid.
		I've been sent a set of photographs taken from the sloop HMAS Warrego while she was in Darwin early 1942.They contain one of the Houston, (close and good quality - above) another of the USS Langley (distant, and therefore not such good quality - below).
		The widow of one of Warrego's crew was the source, and her son has OK'd me to pass them on to you.
	usshouston.org /ship.htm (768 words)

	ADF Serials - RAAF A2 Supermarine Seagull V / Walrus
		HMAS Australia 075 (9.9.35), damaged 26.3.36, Supermarine (31.3.36 for repairs), HMAS Hobart (27.10.38), damaged 15.11.38 Malta, RAAF Richmond (21.12.38), HMAS Canberra (6.2.39), HMAS Richmond (5.5.39), HMAS Canberra (13.7.39).
		HMAS Sydney (23.9.40), QANTAS Rose Bay (21.2.41 repairs), HMAS Sydney (1.3.41), lost when ship was sunk by German raider Kormoran 19.11.41, 130 miles SW of Carnarvon, WA, SOC 23.1.42.
		HMAS Hobart (6.6.40), RAAF Pearce (17.12.40), HMAS Canberra (15.1.41 for return to Colombo), returned to RN charge 23.10.41.
	www.adf-serials.com /2a2.shtml (2031 words)

	Cockatoo Island Dockyard: Ships - HMAS Parramatta (II) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMAS Parramatta was active during World War II in the East Indies and in the Mediterranean, and was sunk by torpedo attack from the German submarine U559 on 27 November 1941 with only 24 survivors from a total of 160 on board.
		Subsequently the drawings were used for the construction of HMAS Parramatta and Warrego; later dates, ship numbers and names were added to some drawings, and some additional drawings with ‘A’, ‘B’ or other letter suffixes were included.
		This series of drawings shows details of the outfit of the vessel and include general arrangements, profiles and sections; details of pumping, flooding and draining, of fresh and salt water services, and of ventilation; magazine; and a docking plan.
	www.naa.gov.au /Publications/research_guides/guides/dockyard/pages/chapter03/parramatta_ii.htm (378 words)

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		Australian sailors preparing HMAS Arunta’s torpedo tubes for action while on escort duty during the landings at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, 22 April 1944.
		The RAN sloop HMAS Warrego at anchor, early 1943.
		Given the often outdated or non-existent pre-war knowledge of New Guinea’s coastal waters, hydrographic surveys were an essential part of the Allied naval effort in the area and were largely carried out by sloops and auxiliary craft of the RAN.
	ajrp.awm.gov.au /ajrp/remember.nsf/pages/NT000024BE?openDocument (804 words)

	ADF Aircraft Serial Numbers -RAAF/RAN A91/N5 Bristol 171 Sycamore.
		Ditched 04/03/61 Coded(851)(909) flown by LEUT(P) J.Dacosta RAN from HMAS Melbourne attempted to hover alongside HMS Hermes a Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier, insufficient wind and helo ditched,off Cocos Islands, all crew rescued.
		Served with 723 Sqn RAN.Coded(902)Ditched 21/11/57.LEUT(P)H.P Hunt RAN while flying from HMAS melbourne experienced engine trouble and was forced to ditch aircraft into the sea near submarine HMS Telemachus.
		Served with 723 Sqn coded 903.Embarked in HMAS Melbourne flown by LEUT(P) Ignatief RAN had an engine failure during auto rotation practise and ditched near carrier.Pilots rescued.
	www.adf-serials.com /2a91.shtml (690 words)

	HMAS Warrego New Britain destroyer sloop Borneo Australia Mediterranean Royal Australian Navy New Guinea Scotland ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMAS WARREGO: HMAS PLATYPUS: HMAS KOOKABURRA: HMAS DELORAINE.
		HMAS Swan; HMAS Sydney; HMAS Tarakan; HMAS Tobruk; HMAS Vendetta; HMAS Voyager; HMAS Warramunga; HMAS Warrego; HMAS...
		HMAS PARRAMATTA II commissioned at Sydney on 8 April 1940 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Jefferson H. www.navy.gov.au/ships/parramatta/history.html
	en.powerwissen.com /LmIOYx7PR14YDvw16jRVBQ==_HMAS_Warrego.html (167 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)

	Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Sites - Cockatoo
		The ill-fated HMAS Voyager was built on Cockatoo Island.
		A Scottish steel-hulled ship, HMAS Warrego, is broken up and transported to Sydney where it is reconstructed on Cockatoo Island.
		In 1959 the HMAS Vampire is launched, being one of the most modern warships in the world at the time.
	www.harbourtrust.gov.au /topics/sitescockatoo.html (1680 words)

	HMAS Hobart Association of South Australia
		Friends and Warrego Members are welcome to join us.For catering purposes, please advise me on 8443 9086 ASAP if you and/or a mate /mates will be attending‑ Main courses range from $7.00 a serve at your individual cost.
		Cruiser, DDG39, Warrego wives and friends are invited to attend The London Tavern, 175 North Terrace (opposite the War Memorial) for drinks,.
		HMAS Stuart sails to take part in DSTO trials.
	www.hmashobartasswa.com /sa/sa_general.html (1738 words)

	Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Under the command of Colonel William Holmes, the AN&MEF departed Sydney aboard the P&O liner Berrima and halted at Palm Island off Townsville until the New Zealand force, escorted by the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, Cruiser HMAS Melbourne and the French Cruiser Montcalm, occupied Samoa on 30 August.
		Sydney and the destroyer HMAS Warrego landed small parties of naval reservists at the settlements of Kabakaul and Herbertshöhe, south-east of Rabaul.
		The German administration had withdrawn inland to Toma and at dawn on 14 September, HMAS Encounter bombarded a ridge near the town, while half a battalion advanced towards the town, supported by a field gun.
	australian-naval-and-military-expeditionary-force.iqnaut.net (700 words)

	RAN in WW1
		Also a Naval Board was functioning, a Naval College was operating at Jervis Bay (NSW), a training ship (Tingira) had been acquired, the building yard at Cockatoo Island had been taken over by the Commonwealth and work had started on naval bases at Western Port (VIC) and Fremantle (WA).
		Within six days of war being declared HMAS Australia, Sydney, Warrego, Yarra and Parramatta had arrived in New Guinea in search of the German Navy Pacific Squadron.
		HMAS Sydney was dispatched and in a classic running battle drove the Emden ashore.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/ran_ww1.htm (620 words)

	Star News Group - Yarra sinking stays - By Kirsty Ross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		War veteran and HMAS Yarra Memorial coordinator Angus Walsh stands at the memorial erected five years ago to the sailors who perished in 1942.
		The HMAS Memorial located in parkland off the Strand in Newport was built and dedicated to the veterans in 2000 and turns five this Sunday 13 November.
		A further 138 sailors and officers perished as HMAS Yarra sank 580 kilometres south of Java after it came under fire by three Japanese cruisers and two destroyers while escorting a small convoy to Australia.
	www.senews.com.au /story/4444 (527 words)

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