HMS Katoomba explained

HMS Katoomba was a built for the Royal Navy, originally named HMS Pandora, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear and launched on 27 August 1889.^[1] Renamed on 2 April 1890, as Katoomba as the flagship of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station. She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She was damaged in a collision with the tug Yatala in Port Adelaide on 29 December 1891.^[2] She left the Australia Station on 16 January 1906. She was sold for £8500 on 10 July 1906 and broken up at Morecambe.^[1]

References

• Book: Bastock, John. Ships on the Australia Station. 1988. Child & Associates. Frenchs Forest, Australia. 0-86777-348-0.
• Book: Brook, Peter. Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867–1927. World Ship Society. Gravesend, Kent, UK. 1999. 0-905617-89-4.

Notes and References

1. Bastock 1988, p. 101.
2. Web site: The Katoomba-Yatala Collision, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Thursday 31 December 1891, p.6.. Advertiser . 31 December 1891. 4 October 2010.