The torpedo boat destroyer, HMAS Parramatta, was born of political expediency and twenty years later was saved from scuttling by political expediency. The first ship built for the Royal Australian ...
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The Ship’s Bugler – Ordinary Seaman A. Gee
Navy’s First Ship to Become City’s Hovermarine Terminal
Parramatta was being stripped before being towed to sea as a gunnery target when the State Government conceived the idea of using her and her sister ship Swan as accommodation ...
The Blazing Trail – poem
‘Twas on the gallant Quickmatch With crew two hundred bold, To “Dusty” Rhodes the Captain, They were like sheep in fold. The men comprised of fighters, Their homes the Empire ...
