HMA ships logs

AWM35 is an incomplete series of log books of HMA Ships and naval establishments, transferred to the Australian War Memorial by Navy Office in several accessions between July 1939 and February 1962. There are three main types of log books in the series:
1) Ship's books: recording the ship's description, dimensions and details of service, reports of inspection, repairs and alterations, and returns and certificates;
2) Ship's logs: recording, on a daily basis, distance run, standard compass course, wind directon and force, weather, temperature and information concerning supplies, water and fuel. The original ship's log (S.321) was maintained by the Navigating Officer from the time the ship was commissioned until it was paid off and functioned as a permanent record, while a copy of the log (S.321b) was transmitted to the Naval Secretary at the end of each calendar month (Navy Order 100/1911). A smaller version of the ship's log (S.321a) was used as the original log for ships temporarily commissioned.
3) Signal logs: including wireless telegraph logs, wireless telegraph cabinet logs and cypher logs. The signal log (S.323) contained the full signification in plain language of all visual and land wire or cable messages transmitted by or addressed to the ship. Logs marked "odd" and "even" indicate odd and even days of the month. The wireless telegraph log (S.325) recorded all messages transmitted or received by wireless telegraph, logged in plain language, while the wireless cabinet log (S.325a) was a chronological record of all work carried out on the wave length on which a ship was keeping watch. The cypher log (S.323a) recorded in plain language all cypher messages received, sent or intercepted.

• AWM35 24/47 - HMAS SYDNEY wireless telegraph signal log, 28 August - 9 November 1914
• AWM35 5 - HMAS BRISBANE
• AWM35 8 - HMAS ENCOUNTER
• AWM35 19 - HMAS PARRAMATTA
• AWM35 30 - Navy Office
• AWM35 31 - Garden Island