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* [[Acceptable Feminine Goals]]: Played with Bomber and Bird who are the chefs of the ship and the
* [[Accidental Kidnapping]]: Occasional plot, when it involves the crew it's normally Kate.
* [[Action Girl]]: Kate and Bomber qualify, Nikki rarely sees action but never lets anyone down and Bird can be
* [[All Work vs. All Play]]: Kate and Mike.
* [[Alone with the Psycho]]: Red Sky.
* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: The crew when they get involved with crimes and the [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]].
* [[Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving]]: The crew, especially Mike, do this on occasion
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Mike has this problem one in a while. The job gets done but it's clear that the crew
* [[Awesome Aussie]]:
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Normally Kate but when Mike is given the rare chance he proves that his reputation isn't just talk and Nikki isn't a pushover.
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** Season 1: Rick Gallagher
** Season 2: Ray Walsman
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* [[Big Eater]]: Charge mostly though he
* [[The Big Guy]]: Buffer, Dutchy replaces him in season 4.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In one episode the crew were attending a event at an French embassy and when Spider asked for a beer the French waiter pretended not to know English and said, "I'm proud of my bum when I see your face". Bomber came to his rescue and told the guy "Don't mess with me, w***!", and got his beer and one for herself. She then told Spider that she could just speak high-school French.
* [[Boarding Party]]: Since they enforcing
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Buffer
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: On the outside the officers and NCO but the officers can hold their own in a fight and many of the NCO (
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Nikki
* [[Camp Cook]]: RO when Bomber is away. Anything she has done wrong is instantly forgiven.
* [[The Chains of Commanding]]: Mike and Kate suffer from this when something goes wrong and there's time think about it
* [[Chickification]]: Averted. While the women do have moments of weakness it's justified and
* [[Command Roster]]:
** [[The Captain]]: Mike 'CO' Flynn
** [[Number Two]]: Kate 'XO/X' McGregor
** [[The Navigator]]: Nikki 'Nav' Caetano
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** [[The Engineer]]: Andy 'Charge' Thorpe
** [[Mr. Fixit]]: Electronics Technicians Josh 'ET' Hoilday and Leo '2Dads' Kosov-Meyer
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** [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Commanders Steve Marshall and Maxine 'Knocker' White.
* [[Cool Boat]]: 'HMS Hammersley' Some occasional boats that are pirated.
* [[Curse]]: The ship suffers one in the first season when Thor, their mascot, is stolen while they're in port. As a result
** There are strange knocking noises in the walls.
** Had to
** The
** A
** Relationships go though a bad patch. (ET, Buffer and Nikki's most notably).
** The generator room catches fire.
** Changes bad eye is affect by the fire.
** ET gets some bad news.
** Mike and the Hammersley part in understanding the jigsaw plot hits a hard
* [[Curse Escape Clause]]: Which involves getting back their mascot, stealing the other ship's mascot (of the crew that stole
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Name a character, though RO and Buffer are, arguably, the most prominent examples.
* [[Death by Childbirth]]: An Chinese illegal
* [[Disposable Sex Worker]]: Poor women looking for a better life are force to be this and are the centre of an episode in the 3 season.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Bird
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Poor RO...2Dads is a naughty boy.
* [[The Drunken Sailor]]: Of course there's shore leave but while Buffer and 2Dads took on two dangerous men and won poor RO 'needs' to stay away from the
* [[Eagleland Osmosis]]: Averted in the show. Considerable danger of being played straight behind the [[Fourth Wall]]. The characters are in the Royal Australian Navy but they are not only doing duties from time to time which in the US would be done by the Coast Guard (typical of Navies for centuries) but are also acting as if they were primarily a Law Enforcement body. In fact they are part of the Royal Australian Navy Patrol Force, attached to the Maritime Border Command. Look in the Wikipedia under Coast Guard for an explanation and [[Fridge Logic|spend a year]] figuring it out. And take comfort that other countries get [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|bureaucratic headaches.]]
* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]: Buffer on a night out
* [[Evil Poacher]]: In ''Under the Radar'' a foreign boat
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Most of the nicknames, Chefo is the chef, though he's also the assistant medic, CO is the '''[[Captain Obvious|C]]'''[[Captain Obvious|ommanding]] '''[[Captain Obvious|O]]'''[[Captain Obvious|fficer]], Swaine is the coxswain, etc.
* [[Everything'
* [[Father Neptune]]: Charge
* [[Friendly
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Interestingly, not much of a problem in ET and Nav's relationship (mostly by Nav accepting that he is an incurable flirt and he makes sure she knows she number one). However when Mike or Kate show interest in someone else they are clearly upset and snark at each other, though they keep it mostly out of the crew's way ... well, Kate does.
** Bomber after two seasons of being the only girl in the ranks finds herself pushed aside when young Bird turns up.
* [[Going Down with the Ship]]: Poor Swaine nearly has this fate after a bad run in with some diamond
* [[Good with Numbers]]: Kate and Nikki are qualified
* [[Happily Married]]: Swaine
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: 2Dads has some of this to Dutchy in series 4.
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: Ship could be renamed this especially in the early seasons
* [[Informed Flaw]]: A few crop up now and then.
* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: A few times when an army man appears or once when the crew found weapons stolen from an army base but there is a problem with the
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: RO, 2Dads, Mike and Dutchy are the most glaring.
* [[Known Only By Their Nickname]]: Besides Mike, and to a lesser extent Kate, the whole cast is almost exclusively refereed to by their nicknames.
** Also Bird which is her surname.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|ET, Swaine}}
* [[Love Martyr]]: While he does love her, and it's not a one way street, some of the things Mike pulls on Kate feel like this though it's subverted by Kate knowing this and
* [[Makes
* [[Malicious Slander]]: 2Dads spreads a rumour about Kate and Buffer being in a secret relationship after a (deservedly) harsh dressing down. Mike nearly physically throws him off the boat and Kate and Buffer make him retrieve
* [[Mission Control]]: NavCom
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Ryan
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* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: During the course of her duties, the XO of HMAS ''Hammersley'' was surreptitiously dosed with Rohypnol by a fisherman/murderer. After ''Hammersley'' saves the day, the Captain came down to her cabin to check on her condition; she didn't wake up when he arrived, and he was greeted with "I don't believe in pre-marital soy sauce!"
* [[Not Me This Time]]: 2Dads increasingly suffers this as the series goes on. He does deserve it sometimes though.
* [[Open Secret]]: ET and Nikki's relationship ends up being this. While everyone is more or less a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|shipper on deck]] no one wants them to leave and so they keep quite about it. Mike and Kate are so good that it comes as a bit of a
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Chefo between seasons 1 and 2, and Nav, Spider and Buffer between season 3 and 4, and Bomber between seasons 4 and 5, tough at least Bomber going away was referenced in the season 4 finale.
** Justified in that people in the Navy change boats regularly, just in the course of their careers.
* [[Quicksand Sucks]]: 2Dads falls into a pit in Season Four, even briefly falling beneath the surface.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Characters leaving the show at the end of most seasons
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The characters were only [[Put on a Bus]] because the actors didn't want to come back to the show.
* [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]]: Averted the women are as
* [[Screaming Birth]]: This happens in the
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Ray Walsman
* [[Sea Mine]]: In the first season a mine washes up on a beach after a cyclone. While it is unstable, the only real danger comes from a pair of [[Too Dumb to Live]] preteen boys who find the mine, don't report it straightaway. One even runs towards it when the bomb disposal unit are about to destroy it to save a tortoise.
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* [[Sex Slave]]:See above.
* [[Sex Tourism]]: Or sex boat.
* [[Taking the Heat]]: 2Dads in an incident with a baby
* [[Team Dad]]: Split between Mike, Charge and Swaine. Mike is the
* Team Mom: Kate and Bomber. Kate as the authority figure and Bomber as a sister.
* [[Terrified of Germs]]: RO
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Bird to the other ladies of ''Hammerley''.
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* [[Traumatic C-Section]]: Though the mother was dead Swaine is haunted by doing this.
* [[True Companions]]: Very strong crew and even when new
* [[Uptight Loves Wild]]: A mild example with Mike and Kate. He more laid back, happy to socialise and
▲* UST: Kate and Mike. Bomber and RO. Bomber and 2Dads.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: RO and 2Dads.
* [[Welcome Episode]]: The Pilot has Kate and Spider's first day on ''Hammersley'', Spider has only been in the navy for four weeks.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Buffer, Spider and Bomber end up stuck on a boat with about 10 deadly snakes at one point.
* [[Will They
* [[Working with the Ex]]: Mike and Kate in the first season.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: A woman in series one sent Maydays all episode. She caused a lot of problems before she held ET at gun point.
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