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Rockingham Naval Memorial Park

Rockingham, Italy

Rockingham Naval Memorial Park

Rockingham Naval Memorial Park is a military memorial in Rockingham, Western Australia, dedicated to the Royal Australian Navy. It contains a number of commemorative plaques, a 110-millimetre (4.5 in) gun turret from HMAS Derwent and a submarine fin from HMAS Orion. The memorial was dedicated on 24

January 1996 by the mayor of the City of Rockingham, F. W. Gardiner. The project was jointly-funded by the City of Rockingham, the Australian federal government, the Western Australian state government and the Naval Association of Australia. Apart from the Rockingham Naval Memorial Park, there are two other war memorials in Rockingham, the Rockingham War Memorial and a commemoration of the Z Special Unit, supplemented by a collection of plaques for individual vessels mounted on the Palm Beach Jetty.

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