During the past decade, the ocean has yielded a conclusion
to many of Australia's enduring maritime mysteries. The military service wrecks
of the HMAS state capital, HMAS AE2 and also the Centaur are found. HMAS state
capital was unsuccessful in 1941 with the loss of 645 lives. The Australian
ship Centaur was unsuccessful 2 years later with an additional 268 deaths.
finding out the wrecks with remote sea submarines has disclosed abundant proof
to unravel the mystery. A clearer image is painted on what happened to like
ones within the last minutes before the sinking of the vessel.
One of the oldest Royal Australian Navy Royal navy cap still
remains unsolved .
The AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's 1st submarine, was
commissioned within the uk on Sat twenty eighth Feb 1914. beside her sister
submarine the AE2, they depart for Australian waters on the ordinal March 1914.
once a journey, overrun with mechanical issues, they sailed through state
capital Heads on the twenty fourth could 1914.
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Following the natural event of war on fifth August 1914,
Australia was requested by United Kingdom to capture German interests in Papua.
The Australian military service Board deemed it vital to destroy the German
Navy within the ocean. The Admiralty suspected that a minimum of 5 German military
service ships were set close to Papua.
The Australian military service and Military military Force
(ANMEF) alittle contingent of roughly a pair of,000 men, was raised in
Australia to attack the German Base at Rabaul in Papua. Australia conjointly sent
an oversized proportion of its fledging Navy. On the eleventh Sep 1914 the
ANMEF and also the main military service force comprising the Navy ships,
Australia, Sydney, Encounter, Warrego, Yarra, Parramatta, Berrima and also the
2 submarines AE1 & AE2 were set off of Rabual Papua. The German wireless
station that was set 7kms landlocked from Rabual was to be destroyed.
Initially, solely a hundred men from the military service contingent landed.
They succeeded in destroying the wireless station and also the next day the
ANMEF took complete management of Rabual. The success wasn't while not the
price of half-dozen Australian lives.
Although history isn't invariably kind to recollect the
Australian action at Rabual it's attention-grabbing to mirror variety of
'firsts' were recorded for war One.
*First time any Australian or British force fought the
Germans on their own Territory.
*The ANMEF secured the first surrender of WWI.
*The military service Men conducted the first bayonet charge
of WWI.
* the primary decorations of WWI were awarded for action at
Rabual.
The Navy now turned their attention to finding the national
capital Ships of Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. On the fourteenth Sep 1914 the
Australian submarine AE1 set sail with the Destroyer HMAS Parramatta to
observe. At 3.20 pm the Destroyer lost sight of AE1. Nothing was ever seen of
AE1 once more, disappearing together with her full compliment of thirty five
souls. No SOS wireless message was ever received, no oil, bodies or part ever
quick-sighted. What happened to AE1 has remained a mystery to the present day.
There are many tries to find the AE1 wreck in New Guinea
Papua waters. One try was administrated by the famed French scientist Cousteau.
However, all tries have did not find the wreck and solve this enduring Royal
Australian Navy Royal navy cap.
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