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HMAS Tamworth Memorial

HMAS Tamworth Memorial
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HMAS Tamworth Memorial, front view
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HMAS Tamworth Memorial, plaque
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Description / Background

The memorial is a rectangular, black stone monument, featuring a ship's anchor of the same material. Attached to the front of the monument, below the inscription, is the Rotary International logo. The monument is positioned on a concrete platform, consisting of two steps. A plaque is attached to the top step. 

From the Royal Australian Navy's website:

HMAS Tamworth was one of sixty Australian Minesweepers (commonly called corvettes) built during World War II ... as part of the Commonwealth Government's wartime shipbuilding programme.

Tamworth was commissioned at Maryborough on 6 August 1942 under the command of Lieutenant William H. Deans RANVR.

Tamworth paid off at Sydney on 30 April 1946... On the same day she was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy and renamed Tidore. In December 1949 the ship was transferred to the Indonesian Navy and renamed Pati Unis. She was disposed of in 1969.

Inscription

Monument

H.M.A.S. TAMWORTH

Plaque

Erected by the Rotary Club of Tamworth West

to commemorate the ship and

the men who served on her from 1942 to 1946.

Erected on the 100th anniversary of the

Royal Australian Navy

on 10th July 2011

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Address
Bicentennial Park
Kable Avenue
Tamworth NSW 2340
Local Government Area
Tamworth Regional Council
Setting
Garden/park
Location status
Original location
Memorial type
Monument
Recorded by
Graham Wilson
Year of construction
2011
Dedication date
10 July 2011
Conflict/s
Second World War, 1939–45
Materials
Other stone