Royal Australian Navy - in and around Australia during WW2

Australia was divided into a number of naval zones which more or less ignored each other. The zones were:-

I'd welcome any information or photos regarding
any of these little known RAN Shore Establishments

Albany War Signal Station (at Princess Royal Battery, Mount Adelaide)	Allied Naval Forces, South-West Pacific Area	Archer Point War Signal Station (near Cooktown, QLD)
Bonshaw Naval Wireless Station (post WWII about 1955)	Booby Island War Signal Station, QLD	Boom Defence Brisbane - RAN Station 8 (near Lytton) (Worked in association with RAN 9)
Boom Defence Cairns	Boom Defence Darwin	Boom Defence Depot Pinkenba, Brisbane
Boom Defence South Passage Between Moreton & North Stradbroke Islands	Boom Defence Sydney	Boom Defence Townsville
Cape Otway War Signal Station	Colmslie Fairmile Base, Colmslie, Brisbane	Exmouth Gulf PWSS (The Submarine Depot Ship acted as a PWSS)
Gabo Island War Signal Station (VIC)	HMAS Assault, Port Stephens	HMAS Belconnen Naval Wireless Station (Transmitter)
HMAS Cerberus, (Flinders Naval Station)	HMAS Huon, Hobart	HMAS Harman, Canberra
HMAS Kuttabul, Garden Island, Sydney	HMAS Leeuwin, Fremantle	HMAS Lonsdale, Melbourne
HMAS Magnetic Townsville, QLD (HMA Name Ship was MV Pagrus)	HMAS Maitland Naval Depot, Newcastle	HMAS Melville, Darwin previously HMAS Penguin IV
HMAS Moreton, Naval Depot, Brisbane (originally named Brisbane)	HMAS Penguin IV Darwin Renamed HMAS Melville	HMAS Penguin, Balmoral, Sydney
HMAS Torrens - Naval Depot and Headquarters at Port Adelaide, SA	HMAS Rushcutter Naval Depot, Edgecliff, Rushcutter's Bay, NSW	HMAS Watson South Head, Sydney, NSW
HMAS Coonawarra, W/T and D/F Station (Darwin)	Intercept Station - HMAS Harman (Canberra) Harman Naval Wireless Station (Receiving) Built 1938-39	Intercept Station - HMAS Ringwood (Melbourne?)
Molonglo Naval Wireless Station	Port War Signal Station, Nelson Head, Port Stephens?	Navy Victualling Store New Farm Brisbane, QLD
RAN Naval Stores Depots Ward Motors Premises, Wickham Street, Valley	RAN Station 1 Cowan Cowan, Moreton Island "Buena Vista", Moffat Head, Caloundra Port War Signal Station, Caloundra, QLD	RAN Station 2 Controlled Mining & Guard Loop Station Bribie Island, QLD, moved to Tangalooma, Moreton Island in Sep 1943
RAN Station 3 Controlled Mining & Guard Loop Station, Cowan Cowan, QLD	RAN Station 4 Indicator Loop & Harbour Defence Asdic Station, Woorim, Bribie Island, QLD	RAN Station 5 Combined Training Centre (Naval Wing), Toorbul, QLD
RAN Station 6 Advanced Fairmile Base AFMB, Bongaree, Bribie Island, QLD	RAN Station 7 Indicator Loop & Harbour Defence Asdic Station, Comboyuro Point (near Bulwer), Moreton Island, QLD	RAN Station 8 Boom Defence Facility between Lytton and Bulwer Island, Brisbane, QLD
RAN Station 9 Indicator Loop & Photo-electric Beam Station Pinkenba (at Myrtletown), Brisbane, QLD	RAN Station 10 Controlled Mining Base, Pinkenba, QLD	RAN Station 21 Port War Signal Station, Magnetic Island, QLD
RAN Station 22 Port War Signal Station Townsville, QLD	RAN Station 24 Harbour Signal Station, Townsville, QLD	RAN Station 42 Port War Signal Station, Fitzroy Island, QLD
RAN Station 44 Controlled Mining Station Cairns, QLD	RAN Station 45 Boom Defence Depot Cairns, QLD	RAN Station 47 NAP Base Cairns, QLD
RAN Station 50 Port War Signal Station False Cape, Cairns, QLD	RAN Station 101 Port War Signal Station East Point, Port Darwin, NT	RAN Station 102 Extended Defence Officer, Port Darwin, NT
RAN Station 141 Port War Signal Station Rottnest Island, WA	RAN Station 142 Indicator Loop Control Station, Swanbourne, WA	RAN Station 143 Port Radar Base, Fremantle, WA
RAN Station 144 D/F Station, Jandakot, WA	RAN Station 145 initially Mine Depot, then RAN Armament Depot, Byford, WA	RAN Station 161 Boom Defence Section, Albany, WA
RAN Station 181 Port War Signal Station, Outer Harbour, Adelaide, SA	RAN Station 182 War Signal Station, Neptune Island, SA	RAN Station 221 Port War Signal Station, Cape Direction, South Arm, Hobart, TAS
RAN Station 222 Tasmanian Coast Watching Organisation	RAN Station 223 Coast Watching Organisation, Bruny Island, Tas	RAN Station 241 Extended Defence Officer, Queenscliff, VIC
RAN Station 242 Port War Signal Station, Point Lonsdale, VIC	RAN Station 243 Examination Service Organisation, Queenscliff, VIC	RAN Station 244 Harbour Patrol Boat Base, Queenscliff, VIC
RAN Station 245 Indicator Loop Control Hut, Port Franklin, VIC	RAN Station 261 NOIC Port Kembla, NSW	RAN Station 262 Examination Service Organisation, Port Kembla, NSW
RAN Station 263 Boom Defence Organisation, Port Kembla, NSW	RAN Station 264 NAP Organisation, Port Kembla, NSW	RAN Station 281 Port War Signal Station & RDF School, South Head, Sydney, NSW
RAN Station 282 Controlled Mining Section, Botany Bay, NSW	RAN Station 283 Controlled Minefield & Indicator Loop Facility, Juno Head, Hawkesbury River, NSW	RAN Station 284 RDF School, South Head, Sydney, NSW
RAN Station 285 Indicator Loop & Controlled Mining Station, Hungry Beach, Hawkesbury River, NSW	RAN Station 301 Port War Signal Station, Nobby's Head then Shepherd's Hill, Newcastle, NSW	RAN Station 302 Indicator Loop & Controlled Mining Station, Newcastle, NSW
RAN Station 307 Naval Recognition Personnel and Tubes Crew, Fort Tomaree, Nelson Bay, NSW	RAN Wireless Station Stanton Hill, Townsville, QLD	RAN Oil Tanks Windsor Located cnr Lutwyche Rd & Newmarket Rd, Windsor, Brisbane
RAN Naval Fuel Tanks Murrarie	Royal Edward Victualling Yard Store, Pyrmont, Sydney	RAN Naval Stores Depots Ward Motors, Wickham Street, Valley
RAN Storage Depot, Ella Street, Fortitude Valley	Thursday Island War Signal Station, QLD (May have been a PWSS on Goode Island?)	Wednesday Island War Signal Station, QLD
Wilson's Promontory War Signal Station

HMAS Adelaide I47/D47 Light Cruiser	HMAS Adele KY89 Examination Vessel	HMAS Alatna Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) Vessel
HMAS Anaconda SRD Vessel	HMAS Ararat K34 Corvette	HMAS Armidale J240 Corvette
HMAS Arunta I30/D5 Destroyer	HMAS Atreus Mine Layer	HMAS Australia D84 Heavy Cruiser
HMAS Ballarat J184 Corvette	HMAS Bangalow FY23 Cable Repair Ship/Survey Vessel	HMAS Baralba Stores Ship
HMAS Benalla J323 Corvette	HMAS Bendigo J187 Corvette	HMAS Bermagui FY81 Mine Sweeper
HMAS Bingera FY88 Anti Sub Vessel Training Vessel	HMAS Birchgrove Park FY15 Minesweeper	HMAS Black Snake SRD Vessel
HMAS Bombo FY12 Minesweeper	HMAS Bowen J285 Corvette	HMAS Broome J191 Corvette
HMAS Bunbury J241 Corvette	HMAS Bundaberg J231 Corvette	HMAS Bungaree M29 Minelayer
HMAS Burdekin K376 Frigate	HMAS Cairns J183 Corvette	HMAS Canberra D33 Heavy Cruiser
HMAS Cape Leeuwin FY30 Survey Ship	HMAS Castlemaine J244 Corvette	HMAS Cessnock J175 Corvette
HMAS Colac J242 Corvette	HMAS Coolebar J25 / FY84 Minesweeper / Stores Ship	HMAS Cowra J351 Corvette
HMAS Deloraine J232 Corvette	HMAS Diamond Snake SRD Vessel	HMAS Diamantina
HMAS Doomba J01 Escort	HMAS Dubbo J251 Corvette	HMAS Echuca J252 Corvette
HMAS Ellan FY57 Examination Vessel	HMAS Falie FY02 Stores Ship	HMAS Falkefjell Oiler
HMAS Forceful	HMAS Fremantle J246 Corvette	HMAS Geelong
HMAS Gerard FY62 Stores Ship	HMAS Gladstone J324 Corvette	HMAS Glenelg J236 Corvette
HMAS Goolgwai FY75 Minesweeper	HMAS Goorangai Auxiliary Minesweeper	HMAS Goulburn J167 Corvette
HMAS Gunbar FY98 Minesweeper	HMAS Gympie J238 Corvette	HMAS Heros W130 / FY87 Tug
HMAS Hobart D63 Light Cruiser	HMAS Innisfail FY21 Cable Repair Ship	HMAS Inverell J233 Corvette
HMAS Jacob Crijnssen
HMAS John Oxley FY65 Examination Vessel	HMAS Junee J362 Corvette	HMAS Kalgoorlie J192 Corvette
HMAS Kangaroo Z80 Boom Defence Vessel	HMAS Kanimbla C78 Landing Ship Infantry	HMAS Kapunda J218 Corvette
HMAS Karangi Z216 Boom Defence Vessel	HMAS Kara Kara	HMAS Katoomba J204 Corvette
HMAS Kiama J353 Corvette	HMAS Kianga FY19 Minesweeper	HMAS Kinchela 206 / 296 Boom Defence Vessel in Brisbane River
HMAS Koala Z69 Boom Defence Vessel	HMAS Kookaburra Z15 Boom Defence Vessel	HMAS Koompartoo Z256 Boom Defence Vessel
HMAS Koopa FY49 Depot Ship	HMAS Kurumba X64 Fleet Oiler / Tanker	HMAS Kybra FY90 Anti Sub Vessel
HMAS K9 former Dutch submarine K IX	HMAS Latrobe J234 Corvette	HMAS Launceston J179 Corvette
HMAS Lil-John NAP Patrol Vessel (34)	HMAS Lithgow J206 Corvette	HMAS Magnetic (ex MV Pagrus) Examination Vessel
HMAS Manoora F48 / C77 Armed Merchant Cruiser / Landing Ship Infantry	HMAS Matafele FY67 Stores Carrier (Lost with all hands)	HMAS Matthew Flinders FY66 Examination Vessel
HMAS Mavie	HMAS Merkur Stores Ship	HMAS Mildura J207 Corvette
HMAS Miro Two Examination Vessel	HMAS Moresby J54 Escort / Survey Vessel	HMAS Moreton Examination Vessel
HMAS Nambucca Mine Sweeper	HMAS Narani	HMAS Nizam
HMAS Orara	HMAS Otter Examination Vessel	HMAS Paluma
HMAS Patricia Cam Stores Ship	HMAS Ping Wo FL150 Stores Ship	HMAS Pirie J189 Corvette
HMAS Poyang FY20 Stores Ship	HMAS Quiberon G81 Destroyer	HMAS Quickmatch G92 Destroyer
HMAS Rockhampton FY95 Minesweeper	HMAS Sea Witch Examination Vessel	HMAS Shepparton J248 Corvette
HMAS Shropshire 73 Cruiser	HMAS Sprightly W103 Tug	HMAS St. Giles Fy86 Tug
HMAS Stawell J348 Corvette	HMAS Strahan J363 Corvette	HMAS Stuart I00 Destroyer
HMAS Swan U74 Sloop	HMAS Sydney	HMAS Tambar Z83 / J141 Minesweeper
HMAS Terka FY99 Minesweeper	HMAS Tolga FY00 Minesweeper	HMAS Tooronga Tug
HMAS Toowoomba J157 Corvette	HMAS Townsville J205 Corvette	HMAS Uralba FY33 Mine Field Tender
HMAS Vendetta I69 Destroyer	HMAS Victoria Examination Vessel	HMAS Vigilant Q80 Patrol Vessel
HMAS Wagga J315 Corvette	HMAS Waree W128 Tug	HMAS Warrego U73 Sloop
HMAS Warramunga I44 / D10 Destroyer	HMAS Warrnambool H202 Corvette	HMAS Wato W127 Tug
HMAS Westralia F95 / C61 Armed Merchant Cruiser / Landing Ship Infantry	HMAS Whyalla J153 Corvette	HMAS Wilcannia FY92 Anti Sub Vessel
HMAS Yandra FY91 Anti Sub Vessel	HMAS Yunnan FY151 / FL151 Stores Ship

Straczek, J.H., "Royal Australian Navy, A - Z , Ships, Aircraft and Shore Establishments", Navy Public Affairs, Sydney, 1996

Charlton, Peter, "South Queensland WWII 1941 - 1945", Boolarong Publications, 1991

I'd like to thank Rex Turner and Greg Philpot for their assistance with this web page.

915 Air Bird	918 Air Chief (Y252)	922 Air Clan
924 Air Cloud	902 Air Faith (Y258)	912 Air Foam
913 Air Guide (Y260)	908 Air Hope	913 Air Host
919 Air Master	925 Air Mercy	917 Air Mist
Air Nymph (Y257)	921 Air Rest	926 Air Sailor
920 Air Save	914 Air Sense	910 Air Speed
911 Air Spray (Y259)	916 Air Trail	923 Air View
927 Air Watch	912 Air Wave