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The window was erected by Mrs Peterson and Mrs Cara in memory of those who gave their lives in the small ships of the Royal Australian Navy during World War Two. 

The small ships of the Royal Australian Navy and their crews performed above their weight in the Second World War. HMAS Kara Kara had been discontinued as a Sydney Harbour ferry when it was requisitoned by the RAN in 1941 and fitted out as a boom gate vessel. Serving in Darwin, along with HMAS Gunbar, requisitioned from the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, and HMAS Kangaroo, commissioned in Sydney in 1940, the small ships saw action in the bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1941, suffering damage and loss of life. The auxillary ketch HMAS Chinapa was requisitioned from Thursday Island not many days after the Darwin bombings, and the wooden motor vessel HMAS Patricia Cam a month later. Both undertook a variety of vital tasks around the islands north of Australia until on 22 January 1943, the Patricia Cam took a bomb amidships and sank.

Location

Address:	Nelson Street, Chapel of Our Lady Star of The Sea, HMAS Cerberus, 3920
State:	VIC
Area:	AUS
GPS Coordinates:	Lat: -38.365678 Long: 145.190872 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.

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Details

Monument Type:	Window
Monument Theme:	Conflict
Sub-Theme:	WW2
Monument Manufacturer:	Brooks, Robinson & Co
Link:	http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/

Dedication

Source: VHD