The aircraft carrier HMAS SYDNEY, (CAPT R. R. Dowling, DSO, RAN), was commissioned. As HMS TERRIBLE she was laid down in Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, England, on 19 April 1943, and was launched on 30 September 1944. Mrs Duncan Sandys performed the launching ceremony. At the end of WWII, TERRIBLE was laid up, unfinished. Purchased by the RAN, she was commissioned HMAS SYDNEY, at a re-naming ceremony performed by Mrs J. A. Beasley, (Wife of the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom).
HMA LST 3017 was renamed HMAS Tarakan and HMA LST 3501 was renamed HMAS Labuan