HMAS Kuttabul (naval base)

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HMAS Kuttabul
Part of Fleet Base East
Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales in Australia
Fleet Base East
Coat of arms of HMAS Kuttabul
HMAS Kuttabul Location in Greater Sydney
Coordinates	33°51′45″S 151°13′36″E / 33.86250°S 151.22667°E / -33.86250; 151.22667
Type	Naval base
Site information
Owner	Department of Defence
Operator	Royal Navy (1856–1911);  Royal Australian Navy (1911–1967);  Royal Australian Navy (1967 – present)
Site history
Built	1856 (1856)
In use	1856 – present
Battles/wars	Attack on Sydney Harbour
Garrison information
Current commander	Captain Viktor Piličić, CSC, RAN [1]
Past commanders	Commander Todd Wilson, RAN

HMAS Kuttabul is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base located in Potts Point in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Kuttabul provides administrative, training, logistics and accommodation support to naval personnel assigned to the various facilities that form Fleet Base East, the main operational navy base on the east coast of Australia.^[2][3] A part of Fleet Base East itself, Kuttabul occupies several buildings in the Sydney suburb of Potts Point and in the immediately adjacent Garden Island dockyard. It also supports navy personnel posted to other locations throughout the greater Sydney region.^[2]

The base is named for the steam ferry HMAS Kuttabul that was sunk while docked at Garden Island during a Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour in 1942.