R.N. Repair Base

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Battle Honours

None.

Specifications

Location:
Garden Island, Sydney, Australia.

Function:
Fleet Repair Base

Commanding Officers:
Commander J. D. Stevenson (act) (ret) 12 Feb 45
(In Command and O.I.C. Harbour Craft, Sydney)

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H.M.S. WOOLLOOMOOLOO

History

HMS WOOLLOOMOOLOO opened as an RN repair base for ships of the British Pacific Fleet at Garden Island Naval Base, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, in May 1945 and was initially named HMS GOLDEN HIND II. The base was commissioned as an independent command on July 1st 1945 taking the name of the dockyard as its ship name.

The Garden Island facility houses the Captain Cook Graving Dock, the largest graving dock in the Southern Hemisphere.

A tender for HMS WOOLLOOMOOLOO (an annex) was opened to house specialist ship repair ratings using Army huts at the Domain, an area of Sydney near to Woolloomooloo which was commissioned as HMS ALERT on September 1st 1945. The annex was closed and was paid off on March 5th 1946.