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?? October 1911 King George V fixed his signature to the approval for a Royal Australian Navy - the R.A.N now officially existed.
5 August 1914 Australia receives a telegram informing her of the previous days' declaration of war by Great Britain on Germany. At the time HMAS Gayundah, former flagship of the Queensland Navy, is en route from Sydney to Brisbane. In 1914 she was one of the oldest ships in the R.A.N.
Gayundah's World War One career was uneventful, apparently confined to prowling her old stamping ground of Moreton Bay.
After WW1, the Gayundah was retired from the Navy.