HMAS 'Tingira' (formerly 'Sobraon') moored in Rose Bay. For fifteen years, 1912 to 1927, the ship was a unit of the Royal Australian Navy being the sole facility for training recruits seeking a career in the Navy. HMAS Tingira was decommissioned when the Navy began training recruits onshore. Source: State Library of Victoria, ‘Tingira ex Sobraon’, photograph by Allan C Green, H91.108/197.