HMAS Hawk - Archive Photographs
This house has been constructed from the timbers of the HMAS Hawk.
Watergoes Beach Byron Bay, NSW.
Photo: by Charles Mohun, used with kind  permission from John Foster(c)

The HMAS Hawk House is currently availible for year round let as a holiday home. The
current owners appear to have spent a lot of money on renovating and retaining the
nautical theme and can be found by a simple google search.
HMAS Hawk
HMAS Hawk and HMAS Gull in harbour at Kuching

Photo courtesy of Brian Gray(c)
HMAS Hawk
HMAS Hawk as seen from the Gull

Photo courtesy of Brian Gray(c)
HMAS Hawk
HMAS Hawk in England

Photo courtesy of Brian Gray(c)
HMAS Hawk
HMAS Hawk being dismantled and broken up for
salvage at Maclean on the Clarence River,
northern NSW, 1987

photo: Charles Mohun, used with kind
permission from John Foster (c)
Rod Beckinsale has kindly shared  these photos
of his time upon HMAS Hawk during Borneo.

(c) All rights Rod Beckinsale
Arms Practice
Bluey Granthan on the Bren
Steak sangers at a banyan. Les
Figg, Tony Minchin, Buck Raynor
(obscurred) and Pete Noonan.
crack the tinnies!  Les Figg, Tony
Minchin, John Whitelaw, Rd Beckinsale(partly obscurred)..remainder
unknown.
Boat intercept. This was after an
incident in which an intercepted
boat detonated explosives when
taken alongside an RN mineseeper.
From that time on the procedure
was to make the crew of
intercepted boats swim to the
ship. Some boats were then sunk
by gunfire from the ship's 40/60
bofors.
Exercising RAS approaches with an RFA. Bomber Brown on the
fo'c'sle.
Note the twin vickers MG mounted
on the bow.
HMAS Hawk at anchor somewhere around
Malaysia/Borneo
              anchor colour to base colour here
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