On This Day - 08 February 1918

The Australian Government purchased Williamstown Dockyard from the State of Victoria, a dockyard that had served the Colonial Victorian Naval Forces up until Federation in 1901 and was used as the Williamstown Naval Depot by the Australian Navy up until this purchase.

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