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	hmas yarra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Yarra, commanded by Lieutenant Commander John Rankin RAN, was sunk by the enemy Japanese cruisers Atago, Takao and Maya on 4 March 1942 with the loss of 138 of her crew.
		The third HMAS Yarra (F-07/DE-45) was a River class destroyer escort laid down by the Williamstown Naval Dockyard at Melbourne in Victoria on 9 April 1957, launched on 30 September 1958 by Lady McBride, wife of the Minister for Defence and commissioned on 27 July 1961.
		The fourth HMAS Yarra is a Huon class minehunter laid down by Australia Defence Industries at Newcastle in New South Wales on 12 June 1999, launched on 29 September 2001 and commissioned in October 2002.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /HMAS_Yarra.html (322 words)

	HMAS Yarra II [Australian War Memorial]
		The sloop HMAS Yarra was launched at the Cockatoo Dockyard, Sydney, on 28 March 1935 and commissioned on 21 January 1936.
		The Yarra was ordered to take the convoy, which consisted of the depot ship Anking, the tanker Francol and the motor minesweeper MMS 51, to Fremantle while the Jumna sailed for Colombo.
		Of the complement of 151, 138 (including the captain and all officers) were killed in the action or died subsequently on the raft.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/yarra/loss.htm (818 words)

	Encyclopedia: Royal Australian Navy
		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.
		HMAS Encounter was a second-class protected cruiser laid down for the Royal Navy by HM Dockyard at Devonport in Plymouth 28 January 1901, launched on 18 June 1902, completed 21 November 1905 and transferred to the Royal Australian Navy 27 July 1915.
		HMAS Terrible (R93) was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier laid down by HM Devonport Dockyard at Plymouth in England 19 April 1943, launched 30 September 1944.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Australian-Navy (3622 words)

	HMAS Yarra
		HMAS YARRA was one of six Modified Type 12 frigates built in Australia between 1957 and 1971.
		YARRA visited Newcastle in July 1985 to participate in the commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
		YARRA’s last day at sea was 8 November 1985, when she sailed for the day with seven survivors from HMAS YARRA II on board.
	www.vvaavic.org.au /Navy/yarra.htm (1676 words)

	Lost
		HMAS Yarra was sunk on 4 March 1942,approximately 500 kilometres south of central Java (modern Indonesia).
		Yarra was escorting a convoy of three ships - a tanker, a small minesweeper and a depot ship - away from the fighting during the Japanese invasion of Java.
		HMAS Nestor was part of a Mediterranean convoy, ‘Operation Vigorous’, with five cruisers and 11 other destroyers when the convoy was attacked by German bombers on 14 June 1942.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /waratsea/lostG.html (2774 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.
		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.
		Yarra's captain, Lieutenant-Commander Robert Rankin, had been ordered to escort a convoy of three ships – a tanker, a small minesweeper and a depot ship – away from the fighting during the Japanese invasion of Java.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /japadvance/sunk.html (752 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)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-HMAS Yarra blasted to pieces by Japanese Squadron on the 4th. of March 1942.-
		HMAS Yarra (11) the second to carry this name was a Grimbsy Escort Sloop laid down at Cockatoo Dockyard in Sydney on the 24th.
		Yarra served in the Persian Gulf until mid October 1941 when she sailed into the Mediterranean to take part in the Tobruk Spud Run, taking both troops and supplies from Alexandria to the beleagured Tobruk which was finally relieved by the British 8th.
		Yarra's next task was to tow the old Australian destroyer Vendetta from Palembang in Sumatra to Batavia, as she had been caught immobilised in dock in Singapore when war broke out with Japan.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/HMASYarrablastedtopieces.html (1388 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yarra was taking troops off the stern while Bendigo worked her way to the bow, but due to the liners bow flare couldn't get close enough; the Australian sailors told the soldiers to jump, not realizing, that being "poms" most of the soldiers couldn't swim.
		Yarra's Captain stated "I was becoming a little dubious of the stability of HMAS Yarra, and on getting clear gave orders for all hands to sit." Leading Seaman Ronald Taylor refused to obey the order to abandon ship when HMAS Yarra was sinking on 4 March 1942.
		HMAS Yarra was a modified Grimsby-class escort sloop HMAS Yarra (II) was constructed as ship number 114.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/february/05Feb.txt (2208 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot HMAS Yarra WW2
		Yarra had used most of its ammunition in air attacks off Singapore and subsequently had been unable to replenish due to the lack of supplies.
		The convoy was subject to harrassment from the air almost continually whilst navigating Sunda Strait and Yarra, although sustaining minor damage was able to usher her charges through intact.
		The opposing 30 eight inch guns of the Japanese soon found the range and pounded the brave little sloop until she lay stopped and helpless in the water, but her brave fight had at least gained a little time for the convoy to increase its distance from the enemy.
	www.gunplot.net /yarra/yarra.htm (988 words)

	NAVY News :: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Perth I (1939-42) was a six-inch light cruiser.
		Whilst under the command of CAPT Hector Macdonald Laws Waller, Perth was sunk by the Japanese on February 29, 1942, in the Battle of the Sundra Strait.
		On March 4, 1942, the sloop HMAS Yarra (1936- 42), commanded by LCDR Robert William Rankin, was escorting a convoy off Java when surprised by a Japanese flotilla of three eight-inch cruisers, two destroyers and six aircraft.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/editions/4707/feature/feature12.htm (248 words)

	AUSTRALIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		YARRA was fitted with the Mulloka sonar system during a refit at Cockatoo Island Dockyard conducted between October 1976 and December 1977.
		HMAS YARRA was guard ship off Tawau at that time and engaged in shore bombardment against the invading forces.
		From September 1967 to March 1968, HMAS YARRA was deployed in the Far East with elements of the Royal Navy.
	www.xsouth.freeserve.co.uk /riverclassart.htm (3394 words)

	The Java Sea Battle, February 1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During January 1942 the RAN strengthened the allied naval forces in the Java Sea area with the arrival of HMAS Hobart, the little sloop HMAS Yarra, both veterans against the Italian forces in the Red Sea and Mediterranean theatre of war, and three AMS vessels- Ballarat, Toowoomba, and Wollongong.
		Another incident was HMAS cruiser Hobart joining up with two old British light cruisers, Dragon and Danae, unable to join in the main naval battles of Java Sea, the former because of enemy disruption to refuelling and the latter two due to escort duties elsewhere, began steaming out of the region together.
		Meanwhile one allied convoy consisting of the merchant vessels Anking, Francol and a small minesweeper MMS51, departed the coast of Java escorted by the Australian built sloop HMAS Yarra, was located by a superior Japanese squadron of three cruisers and two destroyers in the Sunda Straits of the Java Sea.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/java_sea.html (2524 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot
		My timing was perfect as Yarra was preparing for a five month deployment to the Far East in company with her sister ship HMAS Stuart, also an Anti-Submarine Frigate.
		Yarra’s captain was ‘Fox One’, which meant that we were the senior ship of the First Frigate Squadron.
		With incredible power being delivered from Yarra’s steam turbines to her large twin screws, it was pretty to watch a competent driver in control on the bridge.
	www.gunplot.net /dits/eyonyarra.html (4428 words)

	Rankin VC
		The launch yesterday of a new Collins-class submarine named after the skipper of the doomed HMAS Yarra has sparked a call for the ships other hero to also be honoured.
		The new HMAS Rankin, the final Collins-class launched in Adelaide, is named after LtCdr Robert Rankin, whose ship was sunk when attacked by a big Japanese force off Java in WWII.
		HMAS Yarra had been leading a small convoy of navy supply ships back to Australia after the fall of Singapore when they encountered three heavy cruisers and two destroyers on March 4 1942.
	www.users.bigpond.com /rankinvc/Hero.html (492 words)

	Background to the Yarra ending
		March 4 1942: Yarra is attacked and sunk by an overwhelming Japanese force of three cruisers and two destroyers while escorting a small convoy of three ships in the Indian Ocean, south of Java.
		Buchanan's suggestion that Yarra's action bore comparison with that of the Jervis Bay, suggests there was a body of opinion within the RAN believing that here, perhaps, was an action worthy of seeing the RAN awarded its first VC.
		In truth, the mystery (as Parade magazine called it), was not so much why no one from Yarra received recognition as a result of the actions of February 5 and March 4, but rather, why no one in authority ever thought their actions were worthy of recognition.
	www.users.bigpond.com /rankinvc/Background.html (2577 words)

	Yarra on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is important to the water supply of Melbourne.
		Vic: Yarra Glen to be without water for three weeks
		Vic: Gallant crew of HMAS Yarra remembered in Melbourne service
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yarra.asp (296 words)

	NAVY News :: Top Stories
		More than 200 people attended the 62nd Battle of the Java Sea Commemoration Service at the Martin Place Cenotaph to remember the loss of 357 Australians and five Britons when HMAS Perth was sunk, and 137 RAN sailors when HMAS Yarra was lost in the Sunda Strait a few days later.
		Members of the HMAS Perth Association were present as well as many from the “new” Yarra, the mine-hunter HMAS Yarra (LCDR Ian McPherson).
		Yarra’s ship’s company provided the catafalque party while the Sydney contingent of the RAN provided the music.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/EDITIONS/4704/topstories/STORY07.HTM (240 words)

	Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - HMAS Swan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Soon after the loss of HMAS Voyager on 10 February 1964 (in a collision with the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne off Jervis Bay on the New South Wales South Coast), the Government announced that two additional River Class frigates would be purchased as replacements.
		On 18 August 1965, the keel of HMAS Swan, was laid at the Naval Dockyard at Williamstown, Victoria.
		On 15 November 1997, the gun turret from HMAS Swan was presented to the city of Albany by the Minister for Tourism, Mr Norman Moore.
	www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info /articles/hmasswan.htm (2055 words)

	ipedia.com: Royal Australian Navy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This follows the form of the Royal Navy in which ships are named HMS (Her Majesty's Ship).
		His name lives on as the name of base, HMAS CRESWELL, the site of the Royal Australian Naval College at Jervis Bay on the coast of the Australian state, New South Wales.
		On Saturday 4 October 1913 the first fleet review of the Royal Australian Navy took place, the battle cruiser HMAS Australia, the cruisers HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Sydney, the protected cruiser HMAS Encounter and the torpedo boat destroyers HMAS Parramatta, HMAS Yarra and HMAS Warrego, entered Sydney Harbour to a tumultous welcome.
	www.ipedia.com /royal_australian_navy.html (630 words)

	HMAS Yarra - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Yarra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Yarra - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Yarra.
		Here you will find more informations about HMAS Yarra.
		The second HMAS Yarra (U-77) was a Grimsby class sloop laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney, New South Wales 24 May 1934, launched 28 March 1935 by Mrs Parkhill, wife of Archdale Parkhill, Minister for Defence and commissioned 21 January 1936.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMAS-Yarra.html (313 words)

	Royal Australian Navy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ships and Establishments are named HMAS, where HMAS means "Her Majesty's Australian Ship".
		This follows the form of the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy in which ships are named HMS (Her Majesty's Ship).
		His name lives on as the name of base, HMAS Creswell, the site of the Royal Australian Naval College at (Click link for more info and facts about Jervis Bay) Jervis Bay.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_australian_navy.htm (1035 words)

	HMAS Yarra II [Australian War Memorial]
		The loss of HMAS Yarra, 4 March 1942
		HMAS Yarra, the Royal Australian Navy sloop sunk by a Japanese cruiser squadron in a gallant but hopeless defence of her convoy in the Indian Ocean, south of Java, on 4 March 1942.
		Document - Loss of HMAS Yarra II 4 March 1942
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/yarra/index.htm (87 words)

	HMAS Parramatta (1910-1928)
		Built in the United Kingdom and commissioned in September 1910, she reached Australia in November 1910, in the company of her sister ship HMAS Yarra.
		In May 1917, in company with Warrego and Yarra, she sailed for the Mediterranean, being joined en route by Swan, Torrens and Huon, thus concentrating the Australian Destroyer Flotilla.
		Parramatta, assisted by Yarra, took the Orione in tow, and was attacked by a German submarine in the course of doing so.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/parramatta.htm (441 words)

	Australians To Commemorate Battle Of The Java Sea News Page
		A memorial church service will be conducted at the Garden Island Chapel on Sunday 4 March to commemorate the tragic loss of HMAS PERTH and HMAS YARRA.
		HMAS YARRA, commanded by Lieutenant Commander R. Rankin, was sunk shortly afterwards on March 4 as she tried to defend a small merchant convoy against a superior Japanese force that included cruisers.
		Rankin's action in pitting his small ship against the vastly superior Japanese force may be judged in hindsight to be little more than 'sacrificial slaughter'.
	www.55ewps.org /news/defence0302a.html (752 words)

	QSOJulDec2002
		This is only the basic information as his wife Marius does not yet have the full details from the ships CO, but I spoke to her yesterday and she said it was OK to let all his mates and ex colleagues know.
		Doug Marsh has some info for prospective travellers: "I´m flying up to Amsterdam for a month looking around Holland and Belgium, and it occurred to me that some of the people who read the RANCBA page may be planning trips to Europe and are not aware of a few of the no-frills airlines available.
		She and Debra (Pete's step-daughter) were at GI yesterday at 0730 when Pete's ashes were taken onboard HMAS Manoora (along with the ashes of about another 6 ex sailors).
	www.rancba.org.au /QSOJulDec2002.htm (5696 words)

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