High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMQS Paluma was a flat-iron gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and the Royal Australian Navy. She entered service in 1884, was decommissioned in 1916 and then operated by the Victorian Ports and Harbours Department until 1948. 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.

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