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5 July 2007Twenty-four sailors from every walk of life, of every age and temperament, living literally cheek-by-jowl for week after week, away from family and friends sometimes for months at a time. All crammed in an elderly 40 metre metal hulled boat - in seas of all conditions with temperatures often in the 30's. It's a pressure cooker that can bring out the best, and sometimes the worst, in all of them - man and woman alike. It calls upon reserves of devotion to duty, tolerance, obedience and of course humour, way beyond that which most people possess.
12 July 2007
19 July 2007The Hammersley uncovers a sophisticated drug smuggling network, with explosive results. Mike is convinced the Federal Police are covering up the poisoning death of a marine biologist. Kate is jealous of Mike's relationship with Ursula Morrell, while Nikki struggles to restrain her feelings for ET.
Season 1, Episode 4: Irukandji
26 July 2007
2 August 2007The team arrests an illegal fishing boat. Their attempt to get to the mother-ship, Caroil Emperor, is thwarted as they have to save eco-terrorist leader David Thompson's life but is unable to make them see reason. Chief Petty Officer Andy 'Charge' Thorpe wanted to stay on the ship until it's decommissioned but on the CO's orders finally sees eye specialist Dr. Poulos, who surprises him.
9 August 2007Radio officer Robert J. Dixon's cold image culminates when he shows no emotion and refuses compassionate leave for his father's death and funeral, but later explains to captain Mike Flynn. However when 'RO' gets wounded while cleverly discovering a floating container actually contains North Korean refugees and his infection is stitched aptly by one of them, Dixon really takes his plea to search for his family in another container at heart, Flynn now has to hold him back. The search involves some fishermen who struck a friendship with Spider.
Season 1, Episode 7: Rescue Me
16 August 2007
23 August 2007
30 August 2007During Spider's night watch, a rival Navy ship's crew sneaked aboard to steal the Hammer's mascot 'Thor'. Captain Mike Flynn makes chasing the Australian civilian cargo Pacific Mariner suspected of harboring the island killer a priority, and gets captain Rick Gallagher's hesitant permission for a 'boarding exercise'. The XO stupidly insists on leading the search party, and returns after finding only Dr. Ursula Morrell. An explosion and fire aboard prove the culmination of apparent bad luck since Thor's loss. Crew and captain take charge and put things right. Meanwhile crossed attractions cause hot friction.
6 September 2007The Hammersmith stops to help Gavin Daley with car trouble and notices he has his kids and a gun but has no reason to stop him. Later inquiries indicate he 'kidnapped' his two young kids because his wife plans to take them to her new partner in the US, and so they return to arrest him. His ship is found moored on the Tiwi islands, where he hides in the crocodile-infested mangrove swamp. A badly bitten agent (Carl Davies) is the first to be found. He must be sedated, and dies before he can get hospital care and explain what he meant by "everyone from bright island is dead". Gavin and his kids are taken aboard, but he's suicidal.
13 September 2007The Hammersmith stops to try and help Horst Wenders' team which tries to salvage the Pacific Investigator, but it's sinking and is beyond any help so the men are taken on board. Suddenly Horst and an accomplice take chief petty officer Chris 'Swain' Blake hostage after shooting seaman Harry Costa in the leg. They force Swain to return to the wreck, where worse follows. Captain Mike Flynn must balance the Bright Island investigation, Swain and orders from NavCom, which wasn't impressed with his stubbornness anyhow, but proves how it all ties together.
Season 1, Episode 12: Deep Water
27 September 2007
4 October 2007The HMAS Hammersley's last mission before decommissioning promises it will go out with a bang. Federal Agent Greg Murphy reports Gallagher plans to take the crab poison aboard the Pacific Mariner, for sale to the highest bidder. Although the signal disappears, Flynn correctly extrapolates a course to Bright Island. Tthe continued chase leads to an armed confrontation. Gallagher has a hostage and some tricks up his sleeve, and NavCom (naval HQ) must wait for political instructions, while the territorial waters boundaries are almost reached.
31 March 2008After rescuing aid workers from the Samaru islands, the HMAS Hammersley engages a fishing vessel straying into Australian waters.
7 April 2008
Season 2, Episode 3: Takedown
14 April 2008
21 April 2008
28 April 2008After a nigh in Gove port, some men have hangover. Radio Officer (RO) Robert however has a black-out and is diagnosed drug-positive, a probable career breaker. He believes his drink was drugged by Swedish backpacker Anders Nygaard, whose corps is found at sea. Prawn fisher Maurie Stevens is rescued from his run-down trailer. The captain orders RO and Nav to escort him to port. Then a smuggler speed boat is reported and arrested. Now the puzzle starts piecing together.
Season 2, Episode 6: Birds
5 May 2008While the HMS Hammersly helps animal control officer Campbell Fulton inspect an Asian fishery boat, medic Swain discovers a dying man and a load of dead chickens aboard. As this may indicate fatal and highly contagious bird flue, all crew concerned is quarantined. Nav joins them, because she was kissed against her will by Fulton. While ET and Fulton anchor the fishery boat, they fight over her and crash into a rock. ET's leg gets caught. It looks like he'll drown without an amputation.
12 May 2008While the Hammersmith crew helps disarm insurgents on the Samaru islands, local rascal Saka (13) accidentally fires a weapon he found and hoped to sell. island police commander sergeant Toka interrogates him roughly, but releases him to the family. Then insurgents kidnap Saka in a truck. Flynn suspects police corruption and arms smuggle, but can't prove it and has no jurisdiction. During R&R on the island, both a trio of men who went fishing and SAS Captain Jim Roth and her lover, SAS Captain Jim Roth, stumble on their trail, alas unarmed.
19 May 2008Rebecca 'Bomber' Brown's clumsy attempt to retrieve a dropped bracelet, ma's 21st birthday present after 3 years of silence, causes her and helpful Billy 'Spider' Webb to overboard. Buffer's preoccupation with his ma's terminal cancer means that remains unnoticed for hours. Just when cramp makes Spider's situation desperate, they're picked up. Alas it's escaped drug-dealer Finn McLean and his two accomplices. The Hammersmith has a hard time finding their floating overalls and figuring out they're on Finn's boat.
26 May 2008Answering a distress call from freighter Beltane, the Hammersmith finds it sinking. The crew of nine was mostly shot in the head, as survivor Dwayne Pearson describes by professionally acting Eastern Europeans. Their speedboat fits the description of one stolen from tycoon Ray Walsman. He offers a civilian captain's job to Mike Flynn, who should apply for promotion but dreads a desk job, even as step to commanding a frigate. They find the boat, driven by known fiend Franz Szapolyai, who escapes with a hostage to the Samaru islands, probably to sell the just stolen arms. His pursuit proves eventful and dangerous.
2 June 2008
9 June 2008LCDR Jack Freeman takes over as the Hammersley's new CO as Mike Flynn recovers in hospital. Freeman turns out to be very unpredictable and loses no opportunity to humiliate Kate at every turn. Meanwhile, at the hospital Mike realizes that the Russian man, Franz Szapolyai, who stabbed Charge is hospitalized in the next room to Mike. Mike befriends him and shortly after making a phone call to an unknown number he has a cardiac arrest and dies. He begins to suspect that Ray Walsman has something to do with his death as he turned up at the hospital at the same time as Franz's death on the pretense of seeing Mike but Mike hadn't told him he was in hospital.
16 June 2008Mike Flynn returns as Commander on the Helmsley. Buffer follows a lead on his own whilst on shore leave. He finds out that Ray Walsman is supporting the insurgency attacks on Samaru Island. But Buffer is caught by Walsman's men and ordered to be shot in the middle of the scrub land. He manages to overcome his attacker and is rescued by XO and the crew of the Hammersley.
23 June 2008A boat carrying vote officials and ballot boxes from The Samaru Islands is blown up in front of the crew of the Hammersley, and it is determined that Ray Walsman is behind it. Mike and the crew arrest Ray Walsman and hand him over to the Samaru police but he soon escapes. The Hammersley escort UN observers return to the mainland unknown to them that a trained killer is in their midst. The killer has been sent by Walsman's men to kill Buffer - the only known witness to Walsman's plans. Mike and the crew set a trap to catch Walsman and in the process Josh 'ET'Holiday takes a hit but is saved by his Kevlar vest. Buffer goes after Walsman and eventually overpowers him and takes him into custody.
18 May 2009
25 May 2009An animal and a stowaway both cause trouble aboard the HMAS Hammersley.
1 June 2009
Season 3, Episode 4: Guns
8 June 2009
Season 3, Episode 5: Ghost Net
15 June 2009
22 June 2009The crew of the HMAS Hammersley are assigned the task of protecting a shipment of nuclear waste from a terrorist attack.
Season 3, Episode 7: Half Life
29 June 2009A daring rescue at an abandoned nuclear test site causes the crew of the HMAS Hammersley to be exposed to toxic radiation.
6 July 2009Kate McGregor is terrorised by a mysterious stalker aboard an abandoned cargo ship.
13 July 2009
Season 3, Episode 10: Safeguard
20 July 2009
20 July 2009
Season 3, Episode 12: Black Gold
27 July 2009
Season 3, Episode 13: Red Reef
27 July 2009
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