The air/sea rescue vessels, (search and rescue craft), HMA Ships AIR MERCY, (SBLT E.J. Johnson, RANVR), and AIR SPEED, (SBLT J.C. Williams, RANVR), were commissioned.
HMS MAJESTIC, (aircraft carrier), later renamed HMAS MELBOURNE, was launched by Lady Anderson, wife of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Barrow, England.