MemorialsHMAS Tamworth Memorial
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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.