HMAS Steady Hour

HMAS *Steady Hour*
History
HMAS Steady Hour at Port Kembla in 1944
Australia
Name:	Steady Hour
Owner:	Fred Harris
Builder:	Lars Halvorsen and Sons, Neutral Bay
History
Australia
Honours and awards:	Battle honours: Pacific 1942
Fate:	Destroyed by fire in 1945
General characteristics
Length:	56 feet (17 m)
Armament:	1 .303 Vickers MG, 4 Depth charges

HMAS Steady Hour (12) was a channel patrol boat of the Naval Auxiliary Patrol of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during the Second World War. During the 31 May 1942 Japanese attack on Sydney Harbour, Steady Hour deployed 17 depth charges against the Japanese midget submarine M-21 in Taylor's Bay. The submarine's two crew members destroyed their vessel with demolition charges and committed suicide.

Steady Hour was awarded the battle honour "Pacific 1942".^[1]^[2]

Fate

Steady Hour was destroyed by fire on 3 March 1945 while attached to HMAS Melville on air-sea rescue duties at Darwin, Northern Territory.

Notes

↑ "Navy Marks 109th Birthday With Historic Changes To Battle Honours". Royal Australian Navy. 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
↑ "Royal Australian Navy Ship/Unit Battle Honours" (PDF). Royal Australian Navy. 1 March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2012.

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in March 1945

Shipwrecks	1 Mar: USS Hannibal 2 Mar: U-3519 3 Mar: HMT Southern Flower, HMAS Steady Hour 4 Mar: U-3508 6 Mar: Albert Ballin, Z28 7 Mar: U-1302 10 Mar: Amiral Charner, U-275, U-681 11 Mar: U-682 12 Mar: USS Bass, U-260 13 Mar: HMS Sealion 14 Mar: Hugo Zeye, U-714, U-1021 15 Mar: USS Lancetfish 16 Mar: U-367 17 Mar: HMCS Guysborough 18 Mar: U-866 19 Mar: Empire Blessing, Suma 21 Mar: James Eagan Layne 23 Mar: Gneisenau, USS S-21 24 Mar: Tomozuru 26 Mar: HMAS Terka, U-399, U-1003, Zähringen 27 Mar: U-722, U-905 28 Mar: USS Skylark, USS Trigger 29 Mar: Kommandøren, U-1106, U-1169 30 Mar: Köln, U-96, U-348, U-350, U-429, U-430, U-870, U-884, U-965, U-1131, U-1167, U-2340, U-3508 31 Mar: Ha-60, I-8 Unknown date: Ha-69, USS Kete, U-296

Other incidents	6 Mar: Greenhill Park 11 Mar: U-1201 19 Mar: USS Franklin, Ryūhō 23 Mar: U-1003 26 Mar: USS Halligan, HMS Puffin 29 Mar: HMCS Teme 30 Mar: U-1197 31 Mar: USS Coos Bay Unknown date: U-758

1944 1945 1946 February 1945 April 1945

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