The bow and stern sections of the WWI torpedo boat destroyer HMAS PARRAMATTA, were salvaged from a mud bank on the Hawkesbury River, where she had foundered in 1934. The sections were transported by sea and land to the City of Parramatta for inclusion in a memorial to the ship.
The patrol boat HMAS ARDENT, (LEUT J. Riley, RAN), rescued the crew of the fishing trawler ALECIA, which foundered and sank off South Babel Island, VIC.