SBLT F. L. Larkins, RAN, was washed overboard and drowned from HMA Submarine J2, in the Karimata Strait, (between Borneo and Sumatra), while the vessel was returning to Australia. Larkins ...
Australian Naval History on 19 June 1919
CAPT H. P. Cayley, RN, led a landing party from HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), to put down a civil disturbance in Penang. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 June 1919
HM Ships GERANIUM, MARGUERITE, and MALLOW, (sloops), arrived in Australia to sweep for mines. They were later gifted to Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 June 1919
The British Government offered Australia 100 aircraft as a gift, to establish an Air Force and a RAN Air Service. The gift was not accepted at this time, however, when ...
Australian Naval History on 3 June 1919
The first AFC was awarded to Flight Lieutenant A. Frauenfelder of No. 2 Flying School. Frauenfelder was an Australian serving with the RNAS, and trained pilots in aerial combat tactics. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 June 1919
HM destroyers Voyager (later HMAS) and Vivacious attacked the Russian Bolshevik destroyers Azard and Gavril at the entrance to Petrograd Bay. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 June 1919
The ‘HMAS AUSTRALIA Mutiny’ occurred on the battle-cruiser while berthed at Fremantle. AUSTRALIA had returned to Fremantle on 28 May, after an absence of over four and half years from ...
Australian Naval History on 28 May 1919
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), arrived in Fremantle, WA, from Portsmouth, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 April 1919
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), sailed for Australia from Portsmouth, England, after a farewell inspection by the Prince of Wales and the First Sea Lord, ADML Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, RN. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 April 1919
The Prince of Wales and ADML Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, (First Sea Lord), inspected HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), at Portsmouth. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 April 1919
HMAS BILOELA, (fleet collier), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. HMA Submarine J5, (LEUT J. R. Peirson, RN), collided with the French sailing ship TERRENEUVIEN YOLANDE, south of Portsmouth, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 April 1919
HMAS SYDNEY, five J class submarines, and the submarine depot ship HMAS PLATYPUS, departed England for Australia. The submarines had been gifted to the RAN by the British Admiralty, but ...
Australian Naval History on 25 March 1919
Britain’s gift submarines to the RAN, J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, J6 and J7, were commissioned into the RAN. The Flotilla Commander was CMDR E. C. Boyle, VC, RN. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 March 1919
CDRE John Saumarez Dumaresq, CB, CVO, MVO, RN, was appointed Commodore Commanding Australian Naval Squadron, and hoisted his flag in the cruiser HMAS MELBOURNE. Although a RN officer he had ...
Australian Naval History on 21 March 1919
HM Ships ANZAC, TATTOO, SWORDSMAN, SUCCESS, TASMANIA, and STALWART were transferred to the RAN. The S class destroyers were replacements for the six torpedo boat destroyers used during the World ...
Australian Naval History on 15 March 1919
The J class submarines J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, J7, were gifted to the RAN. All were built in the UK under the Emergency War Programme with J1 and J2 ...
Australian Naval History on 13 March 1919
The depot and repair ship HMAS PLATYPUS, (CMDR E. C. Boyle, VC, RN), was commissioned. PLATYPUS, (ex-PENGUIN, ex-PLATYPUS), was laid down in John Brown Yard, at Clydebank, Scotland, on 14 ...
Australian Naval History on 11 March 1919
HMAS PLATYPUS was commissioned as a submarine depot ship, and HMAS KURUMBA as oiler for the flotilla of “J” class submarines presented to the RAN as a gift by the ...
Australian Naval History on 9 February 1919
HMS VENDETTA, later HMAS VENDETTA, (destroyer), engaged Bolshevik ground troops with gunfire at Windau in the Baltic to relieve Red Army pressure on the Lettish Army. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 January 1919
HMAS FANTOME, (survey ship), resumed survey duties after WW1. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 January 1919
HMA Ships PARRAMATTA and HUON, (torpedo boat destroyers), were damaged in a gale off Cape Finisterre and put into the Spanish port of Ferrol for repairs. The Admiralty presented six ...
Australian Naval History on 28 December 1918
HM Ships SWORDSMAN and TATTOO, (destroyers), were launched at English shipyards. Both vessels were transferred to Australia after hostilities ended, and were commissioned into the RAN. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 December 1918
HMA Ships PARRAMATTA, SWAN, YARRA, and HUON, (torpedo boat destroyers), sailed from Ismid, in the Sea of Marmara, for Malta, where they were joined by sister ships TORRENS and WARREGO, ...
Australian Naval History on 25 December 1918
CMDR W. Burrows assumed command of the Australian Torpedo Boat Destroyer Squadron. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 December 1918
HMAS MOURILYAN, (auxiliary patrol vessel), was paid off and returned to her owners. ...