Ahoy - Mac's Web Log

Dear Sir

Just started doing some amateur internet-based research on the Warramunga from when her keel was laid until about 1955.

I have been wandering around the National Archives site and others but what i was after was a site where the ships' logs may be found...bit frustrated with the NA as they either have some obscure folio numbers with little real information or the site is down whenever i wish to log in....

Would you know of a site that may have a collection of Warramunga stories from the ships' company or the ships' logs?

On another note...thankyou for a wonderful website and for all the hard work that you must put into it...it is a great resource.

Yours,
Mark Bremner
Applecross

Mark,

Thank you for your E-mail and your kind words about AHOY which is a joint effort
between my friend Terry Kearns in Atlanta Georgia. He turns all my writing into what is viewed on the web, without Terry's expertise and dedication none of our site would exist.

I am not aware of any site where the log from Warramunga is available. The National Archives do not put up the actual logs, most are stored in Sydney, and once you find the references you need to visit the site and physically look up the logs.

Very frustrating I know, when I was searching for the names of the airmen from the downed Sunderland that HMAS Australia rescued from the Atlantic in 1940, they were found in her log. But I had to ask one of my Naval College year who lives in Sydney to go and search the actual log for the day in question once I found the appropriate reference pages.

Research can take an inordinate amount of time and patience, at least in my experience Mark.

There is a history of Warramunga, it is called: HMAS Warramunga's History 1942-1959. It was produced by Leading Supply Assistant S.T Whyte and it runs to some 323 pages.

I note you are in Western Australia, there is a branch of the Warramunga Association in the west, my suggestion is that you contact the Secretary, Tom Oakley, 41 Adderley Street, Mount Claremont. Tel: 08 93843042, and see if Tom can put you in touch with one of their members who has a copy of the ship's History, and try and borrow it.

Good luck, and let me know how you make out.

Regards,

Mac. Gregory.