HMAS Patricia Cam was an auxiliary vessel operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II.

[2] At one stop, they picked up six passengers: five Yolngu Aborigines including Narritjin Maymuru, and Reverend Leonard Kentish, chief of the Methodist mission stations in the Northern Territory.

[2] On 22 January, while en route, a Japanese floatplane located Patricia Cam and attacked; the unaware vessel had no radar.

[2] The others were clinging to debris, and drifted away; the remains of one were found nine years later in a cave on Valencia Island, 320 kilometres (200 mi) from the point of sinking.

[2] The survivors swam ashore and fell asleep on the beach, waking to find that one of the crew had died from his wounds during the night.