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HMQS Paluma
HMQS ''Paluma'' was a flat-iron gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and later the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS ''Paluma''). She entered service on 28 October 1884, was decommissioned in 1916 and then sold to the Victorian Ports and Harbours Department, who operated her under the name ''Rip'' until 1948 when she was retired. She was scrapped in 1950–51.
==Construction==
Following the Jervois-Scratchley reports the colonial governments of Australia restructured their defence forces. One of the many outcomes of this report was the formation of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force. To equip the new force, the colonial government purchased two gunboats and a torpedo boat. ''Paluma'' was the second of the two gunboats purchased by the colony and was a sister ship of HMQS ''Gayundah'', which together formed the ''Gayundah'' class. This class was built to a type B1 flat-iron gunboat design from builders Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co at Newcastle-on-Tyne. They were improved, slightly larger versions of HMVS ''Albert'' which was also built in 1884 for the colony of Victoria.
The ship displaced 360 tons, and she was long, had a beam and a draught of . ''Paluma'' was propelled by horizontal direct action compound steam engines, which drove two screws that were capable of producing , with bunkerage for 75 tons of coal, which gave her a range of at a cruising speed of . She also had sails to back up her engines. As designed, her armament included a , although this was never fitted. Instead she was fitted with one , two 1.5-inch Nordenfelt guns and two machine guns. The 6-inch gun was removed in 1885 and remounted 10 years later, when two 5-inch guns were also added. In 1901, a 4.7-inch gun replaced the 6-inch. She had a crew of 55.
She was lent upon completion to the Royal Navy. Commissioned in the United Kingdom as HMS ''Paluma'' during October 1884, she arrived in Brisbane on 7 May 1885. Construction cost 35,000 pounds sterling. The ship's name was the Aboriginal word for "thunder".
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