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HMAS Una, October 1914. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.

HMAS Una, October 1914. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.

  • HMAS Una leaves Sydney for New Guinea with two aircraft and their pilots aboard, becoming the first Australian warship to carry aircraft. HMAS Una is the recommissioned German gunboat SMS Komet, captured near Rabaul in October by HMAS Nusa. The transported aircraft are not employed; German forces surrender before Una arrives in New Guinea.