HMAS Coogee

HMAS Coogee was a 762 ton armed patrol vessel/minesweeper of the Royal Australian Navy during the later stages of the First World War.

Built by J.L. Thompson and Sons, Sunderland as the Lancashire Witch for the New Isle of Man Steam Navigation Company for between Liverpool and the Isle of Man. She was purchased by Huddart Parker in 1888 and renamed Coogee.

She was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy as a minesweeper in Bass Strait and also as an armed patrol vessel on 20 May 1918 as HMAS Coogee. She was returned to her owners in 1919, before being chartered by the Telegraph Department in 1921 to repair damage to the Bass Strait cable.

Fate
Coogee was sold for scrap in 1927, her engines removed and was scuttled outside Port Phillip Bay in 1928 at -38.30333°N, 144.58333°W. The wreck is now a popular dive site.