A previous edition of this magazine reported on the recent (2011) Queensland floods and the refloating in dry dock of the ex HMAS Diamantina. The great Queensland flood of 1893 ...
HMQS Paluma
The Harrington Papers – Queensland Defence Force (Marine) 1900-1907
Origins of the QUEENSLAND Navy
Old Thunder and Lightning – the Origins of the Queensland Navy IT WAS A RUSSIAN SCARE in the eighteen seventies that caused the Queensland Government of the day to form ...
Australian Naval History on 19 February 1893
HMQS PALUMA, (gunboat), floated free from Brisbane Botanical Gardens after being stranded by record floods in the Brisbane River. ...
Australian Naval History on 6 February 1893
During a flood the gunboat HMQS PALUMA (CAPT G. Pirie, RN), the steamer ELIMANG, and the hulk MARY EVANS, were washed up high and dry in Brisbane’s Botanical Gardens. The ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1892
The Queensland Navy vessel GAYUNDAH, (gunboat), was paid off and laid up in reserve at Brisbane. Her sister-ship PALUMA, joined her in 1895. ...