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4 unusual facts about HMAS Una


Darwin Rebellion

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

Eduard Haber

Together with 11 other German prisoners of war, he was brought to Sydney on the captured steamer SMS Komet and interned on 29 October in a camp at Holsworthy, New South Wales.

HMAS Una

After World War I, Una was decommissioned and taken to Port Phillip Bay, renamed Akuna and used as a pilot vessel.

In December 1918, Una was sent to Darwin to protect Administrator John Gilruth, following the Darwin Rebellion.



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