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.
Australian Naval History on 8 February 1918
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