HMAS Una

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HMAS Una, 1917
History
War Ensign of Germany 1903-1918.svg
Name:Komet
Builder: Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack [1]
Launched: 4 June 1911 [2]
Fate: Captured by ANMEF, 10 October 1914 [1]
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Name:Una
Commissioned: 17 November 1914 [1]
Decommissioned: 30 June 1920 [1]
Fate: Sold to Pilot Office, 27 January 1925 [1]
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Name:Akuna
Operator: Port Phillip Pilot Service [1]
Acquired: 27 January 1925 [1]
In service: 1925 [1]
Out of service: 1953 [1]
Fate: Scrapped, 1955 [1]
General characteristics
Type: Sloop
Displacement: 977 long tons (993 t) [1]
Armament: 3 × Mk.VIII 4 in (100 mm) BL guns (as HMAS Una) [3]

HMAS Una was a Royal Australian Navy sloop that began its life as the German motor launch Komet. The ship and her 57 crew was captured by an infantry detachment of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force led by John Paton on 9 October 1914, with no loss of life. Komet was then sailed to Sydney as a prize.

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During the time in which the Una was in service under Australia, the sloop was used as a Patrol and General Purpose Vessel. The sloop was used to patrol the areas of New Guinea, New Britain, New Hebrides and Malayan waters. [4]

In December 1918, Una was sent to Darwin to protect Administrator John Gilruth, following the Darwin Rebellion. She arrived on Christmas Eve anchoring beneath the Government House cliffs until HMAS Encounter arrived in early 1919. [5]

After World War I, Una was decommissioned and taken to Port Phillip Bay, renamed Akuna and used as a pilot vessel. She was finally broken up in Melbourne in 1955.

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Notes

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  2. ↑ "Harbor Models - Deans Marine". harbormodels.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  3. ↑ "Naval Historical Society : HMAS Una". navyhistory.org.au. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  4. ↑ N/A, "H19476", "Australian War Memorial", 2014
  5. ↑ Rosenzweig, Paul (1996). Governors, Residents and Administrator of the Northern Territory: Pages 30 & 31 Archived 2008-08-10 at the Wayback Machine . Northern Territory Government. Retrieved on 4 May 2008.

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