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HMAS CASTLEMAINE MUSEUM INSIDE AND OUT: Peter Williams and S.S. COOMA behind. Photo by 'Kookaburra.'
4426. Peter Williams with a display case for the ship. The wonderful ship model in the case behind Peter - his own possession, and one of several very fine models in the museum - is of the Howard Smith steamer S.S. COOMA, 3,839 tons gross, and wrecked on North Reef Queensland, 50 miles NE of Rockhampton on July 7, 1926.
Here's another of HMAS CASTLEMAINE's adventures:
On December 15, 1942, HMAS CASTLEMAINE was escorting the merchant ships SS PERIOD AND ss JAMES COOK from Thursday Island on the tip of Cape York to Darwin - the sea rioute known as 'Bomb Alley' -when the ships came under sustained attack. PERIOD was hit by one bomb, causing four fatalities.
PHOTOSTREAM FLASHBACK: Another view of CASTLEMAINE as an alongside engineroom training ship at HMAS CERBERUS, Flinders Naval Depot, in 1958.
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Twice more during that day aircraft returned to the attack, and once the next, but these attacks were finally repulsed by Castlemaine, and the convoy finally reached Darwin safely.
HMAS CASTLEMAINE MUSEUM INSIDE AND OUT: Peter Williams and S.S. COOMA behind. Photo by 'Kookaburra.'
4426. Peter Williams with a display case for the ship. The wonderful ship model in the case behind Peter - his own possession, and one of several very fine models in the museum - is of the Howard Smith steamer S.S. COOMA, 3,839 tons gross, and wrecked on North Reef Queensland, 50 miles NE of Rockhampton on July 7, 1926.
Here's another of HMAS CASTLEMAINE's adventures:
On December 15, 1942, HMAS CASTLEMAINE was escorting the merchant ships SS PERIOD AND ss JAMES COOK from Thursday Island on the tip of Cape York to Darwin - the sea rioute known as 'Bomb Alley' -when the ships came under sustained attack. PERIOD was hit by one bomb, causing four fatalities.
PHOTOSTREAM FLASHBACK: Another view of CASTLEMAINE as an alongside engineroom training ship at HMAS CERBERUS, Flinders Naval Depot, in 1958.
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4459337553/sizes/o/in/...
Twice more during that day aircraft returned to the attack, and once the next, but these attacks were finally repulsed by Castlemaine, and the convoy finally reached Darwin safely.