page_title: HMAS Nereus
hierarchical_section_title: HMAS Nereus
caption_attribution_description: The Royal Australian Navy channel patrol boat HMAS Nereus on Sydney Harbour
context_page_description: HMAS Nereus was a channel patrol boat operated by the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. She was one of thirteen similar vessels, known to Sydneysiders as the 'Hollywood Fleet'.
  Prior to the War, she was a private vessel built by Lars Halvorsen & Sons and launched in 1939.
  She was requisitioned and later commissioned by the RAN on 30 December 1941 under the command of Second Lieutenant E B Beeham RANVR. Nereus was armed with .303 Vickers machine guns fore and aft and depth charge racks on the stern.
  Nereus played no role in the Battle of Sydney Harbour and her whereabouts at the time has not been established. However, Muirhead-Gould’s 22 June Report, includes that on the night after the Battle, Nereus attacked and claimed to have sunk a submarine in Vaucluse Bay. At the time of his report, Muirhead-Gould believed the claim was genuine, but later considered the report to be a false sighting.
context_section_description: HMAS Nereus (19) was a channel patrol boat operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the Second World War. She was one of thirteen similar vessels, known to Sydneysiders as the 'Hollywood Fleet'.
  Prior to the War, she was a private vessel built by Lars Halvorsen & Sons and launched in 1939.
  She was requisitioned and later commissioned by the RAN on 30 December 1941 under the command of Second Lieutenant E B Beeham RANVR. Nereus was armed with .303 Vickers machine guns fore and aft and depth charge racks on the stern.
  Nereus played no role in the Battle of Sydney Harbour (often referred to as the Attack on Sydney Harbour) and her whereabouts at the time has not been established.  However, Muirhead-Gould’s (commander of Sydney Harbour) 22 June Report, includes that on the night after the Battle, Nereus attacked and claimed to have sunk a submarine in Vaucluse Bay.  At the time of his report, Muirhead-Gould believed the claim was genuine, but later considered the report to be a false sighting.
caption: HMAS Nereus on Sydney Harbour
exif: {"Image XPTitle": "[78, 0, 97, 0, 116, 0, 105, 0, 111, 0, 110, 0, 97, 0, 108, 0, 32, 0, 67, 0, 111, 0, 108, 0, 108, 0, 101, 0, 99, 0, 116, 0, 105, 0, 111, 0, 110, 0, 0, 0]", "Image XPAuthor": "Australian War Memorial", "Image XPSubject": "[51, 0, 48, 0, 49, 0, 57, 0, 51, 0, 56, 0, 0, 0]"}