HMA Submarine AE1, tree - Mosman, NSW, Australia
S 33° 51.183 E 151° 14.756
56H E 337727 N 6252753
This tree was planted, and Dedicated for the AE1 Submarine from the First World War.
Waymark Code: WM11C44
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 09/24/2019
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The simple engraved brass plaque is embedded in a concrete plinth with a Navy emblem beside it, a couple of metres away from a very mature Moreton Bay Fig tree, on the grassy slope leading down to the Amphitheatre of Bradley's Head. The inscription reads:
HMA SUBMARINE AE1
14 September 1914
Lost during a patrol near
Cape Gazelle, New Guinea
From the following Naval link directly for the AE1 is the transcription of another plaque (unknown location), which can be seen there:
HMA Submarine AE1
Battle Honours: Rabaul 1914
In early September 1914, HMA Submarine
AE1 and
AE2 deployed with the Australian Fleet to occupy Germany's regional possessions in the South-West Pacific and remve the threat posed by the German Eas Asiatic Cruiser Squadron. Following a successful operation to seize Rabaul,
AE1 was conducting a patrol with destroyer HMAS
Parramatta in St George's Channel. to the south and east of Duke of York Island, when she vanished on the afternoon of 14 September 1914. Despite an extensive search conducted over a three-day period, no trace was found of the submarine or its 35 crew (14 Royal Australian Navy and 21 Royal Navy).
Entombed but not forgotten
[ex-HMA AE1
Visited: 0705 Wednesday, 4 September, 2019