The Burial of Australia’s First Flagship HMAS Australia

This week Sydney is celebrating the centenary of the 1913 Fleet Review. On the 4th of October 1913 HMAS Australia led the fleet consisting of HMAS Encounter, HMAS Melbourne, HMAS Warrego, HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Yarra steaming through the heads of Sydney Harbour. HMAS Australia, an Indefatigable-class battle cruiser, was The Royal Australian Navy’s first flagship. A year later it was serving Australia in World War I. After distinguished service HMAS Australia was decommissioned and eventually scuttled off Sydney Heads on April 12 1924. This film records the last moments of that important piece of Australian Naval history.