Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/April 18

HMQS Paluma was a gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and the Royal Australian Navy. She was commissioned in the United Kingdom during October 1884 and arrived in Brisbane in May 1885. Over the next few years the ship conducted survey work on the Great Barrier Reef for the Admiralty before being placed in reserve during the depression of the 1890s. Paluma became part of the Commonwealth Naval Forces following Federation in 1901 and was employed mainly around Sydney Harbour during World War I before being sold in 1916 to the Victorian Ports and Harbours Department. Paluma was retired in 1948 and was scrapped in 1950-1951.