A mollymawk is an Australian/NZ word for what creature, strongly linked with maritime superstition?
Mollymawk Mollymawk The mollymawks are a group of medium-sized albatrosses that form the genus "Thalassarche". The name has sometimes been used for the genus "Phoebetria" as well, but these are usually called sooty albatrosses. They are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, where they are the most common of the albatrosses. They were long considered to be in the same genus as the great albatrosses, "Diomedea", but a study of their mitochondrial DNA showed that they are a monophyletic taxon related to the sooty albatrosses, and they were placed in their own genus. The word "mollymawk", which dates to the late 17th
HMAS Mollymawk at . She was commissioned in January 1950 and in September 1952, she was named HMAS "Mollymawk". She served as a tender to before being transferred to the Australian Army in 1957. On 6 October 1959 two men, Sappers Hugh Brooks and Ronald Leslie Hill, of "Mollymawk" were awarded the British Empire Medal for their "outstanding courage and seamanship". The men volunteered to board a lighter which was being towed by "Mollymawk" in heavy weather to reattach cables after the tow line parted. She served with the 32nd Small Ship Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers until 1963, when she was sold