HMAS Cessnock
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Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy
have been named HMAS Cessnock, for the town of name Cessnock, New South Wales
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, a Bathurst class corvette laid down in 1941 and paid off in 1946, a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down in 1981 and in service until 2005
s were awarded to ships named HMAS Cessnock:
Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...
have been named HMAS Cessnock, for the town of name Cessnock, New South Wales
Cessnock, New South Wales
Cessnock is a city in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, about by road west of Newcastle. It is the administrative centre of the Cessnock City Council LGA and was named after an 1826 grant of land called Cessnock Estate, which was owned by John Campbell...
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, a Bathurst class corvette laid down in 1941 and paid off in 1946, a Fremantle class patrol boat laid down in 1981 and in service until 2005
Battle honours
Four battle honourBattle honour
A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to a military unit to emblazon the name of a battle or operation on its flags , uniforms or other accessories where ornamentation is possible....
s were awarded to ships named HMAS Cessnock:
- PacificSouth West Pacific theatre of World War IIThe South West Pacific Theatre, technically the South West Pacific Area, between 1942 and 1945, was one of two designated area commands and war theatres enumerated by the Combined Chiefs of Staff of World War II in the Pacific region....
1942 - New GuineaNew Guinea campaignThe New Guinea campaign was one of the major military campaigns of World War II.Before the war, the island of New Guinea was split between:...
1942 - Indian OceanIndian Ocean in World War IIAxis naval forces operated throughout the Indian Ocean during World War II . These activities included unrestricted submarine warfare, airstrikes by aircraft carriers, covert raiding ships, capital ships and raids by land-based heavy bombers...
1942–45 - SicilyAllied invasion of SicilyThe Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis . It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign.Husky began on the night of...
1943