HMQS Gayundah

HMQS Gayundah was a flat iron gunboat of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, later the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Gayundah. She was ordered in 1884 together with her sister Paluma and the torpedo boat Mosquito, and built to a type B1 flat iron gunboat design by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co, being launched at Newcastle upon Tyne on 13 May 1884. She displaced 360 tons, drove two screws with compound steam engines and also carried sails. In 1903 she sent the first wireless message received from a ship at sea by an Australian wireless station. Paid off in 1918 and sold in 1921, she hauled sand and gravel on the Brisbane River and since 1958 her hull has served as a breakwater at Woody Point, near Redcliffe.