HMS PIONEER, (3rd class cruiser), later HMAS PIONEER, was launched at Chatham, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 7 January 1899
VADM Sir John Collins, KBE, CB, was born at Deloraine, TAS. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 April 1898
HMVS NELSON was decommissioned and sold out of service. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 February 1898
CAPT R. P. Minifie, DSC and two Bars, an Australian who served with the RNAS, was born in Melbourne. Minifie was Australia’s youngest air ace of the First World War, ...
Australian Naval History on 1 November 1897
RADM Hugo L. Pearson, RN, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding the Australia Station. His flagship was HMS ROYAL ARTHUR. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 October 1897
The NSW Naval Brigade, commanded by CAPT Hixson, carried out gunfiring exercises at Port Macquarie, NSW. ...
Australian Naval History on 5 September 1896
The Government of New South Wales handed over the Garden Island Naval Base to the Admiralty. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 April 1895
The RN Depot at Circular Quay, Sydney, was transferred to Garden Island. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 November 1894
RADM Cyprian A. G. Bridge, RN, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding the Australia Station. His flagship was HMS ORLANDO. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 June 1893
VADM Sir George Tryon, a former Flag Officer Commanding Australia Station, lost his life when his flagship, HMS VICTORIA, was rammed by HMS CAMPERDOWN, off Tripoli, Syria. Tryon was found ...
Australian Naval History on 19 February 1893
HMQS PALUMA, (gunboat), floated free from Brisbane Botanical Gardens after being stranded by record floods in the Brisbane River. ...
Australian Naval History on 6 February 1893
During a flood the gunboat HMQS PALUMA (CAPT G. Pirie, RN), the steamer ELIMANG, and the hulk MARY EVANS, were washed up high and dry in Brisbane’s Botanical Gardens. The ...
Australian Naval History on 31 December 1892
HMS WOLVERINE, training ship of the NSW Naval Brigade, was sold out of service. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1892
The Queensland Navy vessel GAYUNDAH, (gunboat), was paid off and laid up in reserve at Brisbane. Her sister-ship PALUMA, joined her in 1895. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 September 1892
RADM Nathaniel Bowden-Smith was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Australia Station. His flagship was HMS ORLANDO. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 July 1891
HMS HIMALAYA, (troopship), arrived at Port Jackson with relief crews for ships on the Australia Station. HIMALAYA was a steamship built for the P&O Line in 1853. She was chartered ...
Australian Naval History on 1 April 1891
The Auxiliary Squadron, consisting of HM Ships WALLAROO, MILDURA, and RINGAROOMA, (cruisers), and KARRAKATTA, (torpedo gunboat), in commission, and with HM Ships KATOOMBA, and TAURANGA, (cruisers), and BOOMERANG, (torpedo gunboat), ...
Australian Naval History on 11 February 1891
The Clipper ship SOBRAON was purchased by the NSW Government as a replacement for the boys’ training ship VERNON. The vessel was commissioned into the RAN as HMAS TINGIRA in ...
Australian Naval History on 25 September 1890
Royal Naval House, Sydney, was officially opened by His Excellency, Lord Carrington, Governor of NSW. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 February 1890
HM Ships DART and PALUMA surveyed waters off Cape York, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 September 1889
RADM the Rt. Hon Lord Charles T. M. D. Scott, CB, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding the Australia Station. His flagship was HMS ORLANDO. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1889
The fleet of the State of Victoria consisted of HMV Ships NELSON, (cut-down 1st rate); CERBERUS, (turret ship); BATMAN, and FAWKNER, (armed auxiliaries); CHILDERS, NEPEAN, and LONSDALE, (torpedo boats); VICTORIA, ...
Australian Naval History on 25 May 1889
The foundation stone of the Royal Naval House, Sydney, ‘Johnnie’s’, was laid by Lady Carrington. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 April 1889
HMS CALLIOPE, (corvette), returned to Sydney after surviving a hurricane at Apia, Samoa. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 March 1889
HMS CALLIOPE, (screw corvette), was despatched from Sydney to Samoa to forestall German and American plans to annex the island. ...