Talk:HMAS Australia (D84)

message: The article states she was hit on 6 different occasions, representing the most hits a ship took from kamikaze attacks.
Did any of these occasions include multiple hits? The USS Laffey was hit by 6 kamikazes and would be tied with the HMAS Australia if each of these 6 different occasions represented just 1 kamikaze hit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.220.47 (talk) 05:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many Kamikaze hits? 

message: JD47 (talk) 11:06, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/austral/aussh-ag/austr2.htm
Makes it sound like only 6 hits, which represents a tie with the USS Laffey.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.220.47 (talk) 05:09, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  In addition... 

message: I'm throwing a query out to the community regarding some images that may have mis-identified a ship as Australia. The US Navy Naval Historical Center images :File:Mk_VIII.jpg and :File:Hudson River view towards Christopher.jpg (among others at  and ) claim to be of Australia during a visit to New York City in 1932 andor 1933. However, according to all the sources I've looked at during a rewrite, Australia operated in home and south-west Pacific waters during those years.
Is it possible that somewhere along the line, the identity of the ship has been mistaken, and that the vessel visiting in these photos is another warship (most likely another County class cruiser)? Or, less likely in my opinion, have they muddled up the dates (Australia did visit in 1928 and 1945)? Any help would be appreciated. -- saberwyn 22:35, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ask Sturmvogel, I think he has Whitley's Cruisers of World War II Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:14, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I do think that it's either Canberra or Australia because the funnels seem to be a bit taller than the rangefinder on top of the rectangular upper bridge structure, unlike the rest of the Kent-subclass, but I cannot positively confirm that as I didn't copy the photos in Raven and Roberts' British Cruisers of World War 2. But it's definitely a pre-war photo. There's a photo in Whitley on p.17 that's from the same angle and identified as Australia, albeit at sea.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:53, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misidentified photos? 

message: I have 1954 photo of the Queen sitting in front of the crew of HMAS Australia in 1954 and thought that it would look great in this article as well as the Royal Australian Navy wikipedia page and the Monarchy of Australia page. I don't know how to upload it though and wondered whether anyone here would like to add it to these articles if I emailed it to them? Because it is over 50 years old it will be in the public domain.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alextonkin133 (talk • contribs) 10:37, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be interested in seeing the photograph; please go to my user page and use the "email this user" link in the left hand Toolbox menu to establish communication (but note I'll have to respond to your email before you can send any attachments to me). However, although this image is in the public domain in Australia (having been before the current pre-1955 threshold) United States legal mumbo-jumbo leads me to believe that the photograph is not public domain in the United States, where Wikipedia and related servers are hosted (my not-a-lawyer understanding is that the image had to enter the public domain before 1996 - either by being taken pre-1941, or by specificly being released into the public domain by the copyright holder). More information on the provenance of the image (i.e. where it came from) would help clarify this. -- saberwyn 10:26, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  HMAS Australia crew photo with Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh 

message: Some potential sources that may contain useful information for this article:
*Naval warfare 1919-45: an operational history of the volatile war at sea by Malcolm H. Murfett: mentions the friendly bombing incident
*Fire from the Sky by Robert C. Stern: includes a chapter on Aussie II re: kamikazes
-- saberwyn 10:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential sources

message: The wrong naval ensign is displayed in the article (under the photo of the ship).
What is shown is the Royal Navy's flag. NOT the Royal Australian Navy's ensign
I'm not that skilled at editing, or I'd do this myself.
Montalban (talk) 00:43, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Australia operated with the ensign shown in the infobox. The RAN used an ensign identical to the British one from its foundation in 1911 until 1967, when the current ensign was introduced (read Australian White Ensign for more info). -- saberwyn 01:58, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, that's what the navy says too.  I didn't know, because the red ensign's been around since 1901. Montalban (talk) 02:52, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Something to do with the late 1800/early 1900 British thinking of the Dominion navies (like the RAN) as semi-independent components of the RN, and the Dominions more than happy to roll with it. -- saberwyn 03:30, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong ensign displayed 

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thread_title:  [[:File:HMAS Australia Oct 1937 SLV straightened.jpg]] to appear as POTD 

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