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unusual facts about HMAS ''Bermagui''



1000 Miles Away

The crew of Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Canberra had an association with the song after they adopted it as their 'anthem'.

1880 in Australia

10 October - Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappear on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.

Acacia falcata

The range is from Queensland south through eastern New South Wales to Bermagui on the south coast.

AE1

HMAS AE1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Australian Navy

Bermagui

MSA Bermagui, a non-commissioned auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy during the 1990s

HMAS Bermagui, a commissioned auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II

Bermagui, New South Wales

In 1880, a geologist, Lamont Young, and four others disappeared while on a boat trip from Bermagui.

Zane Grey, the well-known big-game fisherman of the 1930s and author of Westerns, wrote of his experiences there.

Darwin Rebellion

The Government was alarmed, and within a week of the incident the lightly armed gunboat HMAS Una arrived to protect the Administrator.

Eucalyptus paniculata

The natural range of distribution is high rainfall coastal areas from Bermagui to Bulahdelah.

HMAS Durraween

Together with HMAS Orara, they sweeped for mines off Wilsons Promontory in November 1940 and removed forty-three mines from Bass Strait, which had been laid by the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin and auxiliary minelayer Passat.

HMAS Heros

In late November and early December 1941 she took part in the search for survivors from HMAS Sydney and found one of the ship's carley floats: one of only two items found from the cruiser, and currently on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

HMS Curlew

HMAS Curlew was a Ton-class minesweeper, launched in 1953 as HMS Montrose, renamed HMS Chediston in 1958 and then HMAS Curlew on her transfer to the Royal Australian Navy in 1962.

HMVS Childers

During World War I she served in Victorian waters and as a tender to HMAS Cerberus.

Lamont Young

A 1910 article, "Bermagui - In a Strange Sunset", by Henry Lawson published in The Bulletin, describes a steamer journey from Bermagui to Sydney.

Larrakeyah, Northern Territory

Features of Larrakeyah include the Larrakeyah Barracks (an Army barracks combined with HMAS Coonawarra Naval Base) that takes up most of the suburb, Larrakeyah Terrace (a pleasant harbour-front street with an open park for picnics and walks), as well as being close by to the tourist attractions in Darwin City, Cullen Bay, Mindil Beach and the George Brown Botanical Gardens.

Loch Vennachar

The shank and the stock were then respectively conveyed to Port Adelaide on MV Troubridge and on HMAS Banks.

Mount Gulaga

Access to the park is approximately 10 kilometres north of Bermagui.

Mystery Bay, New South Wales

The boat had carried Lamont Young, a government geologist inspecting new goldfields on behalf the New South Wales Mines Department together with his assistant Max Schneider, and boat owner Thomas Towers and two others, from nearby Bermagui.

Rangle River

The original story was written by Zane Grey while at Bermagui during his 1935 fishing tour of Australia, a period which also produced the film White Death (1936).

Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society

For instance, there are members in countries such as the United States and the Netherlands, and a semi-autonomous national group in Australia that has stations in three museum ships: HMAS Vampire, HMAS Diamantina, and HMAS Castlemaine.

Sapphire Coast

The Sapphire Coast is the marketing/ tourist name for the Bega Valley Shire region in South East, New South Wales, Australia and stretches from Bermagui in the North to the Victorian border in the South.

Stawell

HMAS Stawell, a Bathurst class corvette named after the Australian settlement

Strahan

HMAS Strahan, Bathurst class corvette serving during World War II

Task Force 44

In mid-1944, Commodore John Augustine Collins was made commander of the Australian-US Navy Task Force 74, and commander of the Australian Naval Squadron, with HMAS Australia as his flagship.

Terence Cole

On 31 March 2008, Cole was appointed to head an inquiry into the loss of the cruiser HMAS Sydney in a mutually destructive battle during World War II.

Timothy Monckton Synnot

He was a descendant of Monckton Synnot and the older brother of Admiral Anthony Synnot he joined the RAN in 1930 and served on HMAS Hobart in World War II, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and was mentioned in Despatches.

Umbarra

Umbarra, or King Merriman (died 1904) was an Aboriginal elder of the Djirringanj/Yuin people of the Bermagui area on the South Coast of New South Wales.

Warrego

HMAS Warrego, two ships of the Royal Australian Navy named after the river


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