HMAS Kuttabul

HMAS Kuttabul in Potts Point, Sydney, NSW is categorized under Physiotherapists specialising in services such as Musculoskeletal injury Physio, Gait Analysis, Rehabilitation Physio.

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About

Welcome to HMAS Kuttabul’s official page. Here you will find all of the latest news, information and updates about Kuttabul and her ships company.

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STORY

Commanding Officer: Commander Rebecca Jeffcoat

Welcome to HMAS Kuttabul, Wylde Street, Potts Point, NSW.

Situated above the historic Garden Island (GI) Dockyard facility, HMAS Kuttabul primary role is to provide administrative, training and logistics support to defence personnel, both uniform and civilian, employed within the Sydney area.

Garden Island itself has been host to a naval base since 1856, when the government of New South Wales suggested giving the area over to the Royal Navy as a base for ships serving on the Australia Station. Following the foundation of the Royal Australian Navy in 1911, all naval establishments were given over by the UK to the RAN. However, until 1939, the ownership of Garden Island itself was in dispute, with NSW claiming it as its property. This was solved when the Australian government initially requisitioned the island (together with the naval base) under emergency wartime powers. The government then purchased Garden Island from NSW for £638,000 in 1945.

The Garden Island facility houses the Captain Cook Graving Dock which was, at the time of construction during World War II, the largest graving dock in the Southern Hemisphere. The dock was constructed between 1940 and 1945, by filling in the area between Garden Island and Potts Point. The dock and associated dockyard are operated under lease by Thales Australia. The northern tip of Garden Island is as of 2008 open to the public, accessible only by ferry. The area features the Navy Heritage Centre, opened in 2004, and graffiti dating to the First Fleet in 1788.

After the outbreak of World War II, the ferry Kuttabul was requisitioned by the RAN, and moored at the Garden Island naval base to provide accommodation for Allied naval personnel while they awaited transfer to their ships.

On the night of 31 May-1 June 1942, three Ko-hyoteki class midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy entered Sydney Harbour with the intention of attacking Allied warships. Only one of the submarines, designated M-24, was able to fire her torpedoes, but both missed their intended target: the heavy cruiser USS Chicago. The torpedoes, fired around 00:30, continued on to Garden Island: one ran aground harmlessly, but the other hit the breakwater against which Kuttabul and the Dutch submarine K-IX were moored. The explosion broke Kuttabul in two and sank her.

The attack killed 19 Royal Australian Navy and two Royal Navy sailors asleep aboard the ferry, and wounded another 10. It took several days for the bodies of the dead sailors to be recovered, with a burial ceremony held on 3 June. One of the ferry’s wheelhouses was salvaged and used as a naval police guardhouse at the Garden Island naval base. The base was commissioned on 1 January 1943 as HMAS Kuttabul in commemoration of the ferry and the lives lost.

Reviews

“They do promote people to come….look up at the North Point for the Naval Heritage area :)”

“Historical site, should promote more people to come. “