The RAN established the world’s first seabed mine de-magnetising range, at Shark Point, Sydney. Ships passing over the range are automatically de-magnetised. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 May 1984
HMAS IBIS, (minesweeper), was paid off at Sydney for disposal after 22 years service in the RAN. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 April 1984
HMAS GEELONG, (patrol boat), and the second ship of the name to serve in the RAN, was launched at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 March 1984
HMAS CESSNOCK, (patrol boat), rushed emergency medical aid and food supplies to cyclone devastated Borrodoola in Western Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 March 1984
HMAS IPSWICH, (patrol boat), apprehended an Indonesian fishing vessel poaching in the Australian Fishing Zone, after a game of hide and seek in mangrove swamps. The vessel was escorted to ...
Australian Naval History on 18 March 1984
HMAS CESSNOCK, (patrol boat), provided relief aid and communications when Cyclone Kathy devastated communities on the Gulf of Carpentaria. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 March 1984
The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS DUBBO, was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 March 1984
HMAS SUCCESS, (Durance Class Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment), was launched at Cockatoo Island Dockyard by Lady Helen Stephens, (wife of the Governor General Sir Ninian Stephens). At the time she was ...
Australian Naval History on 28 February 1984
First Aerospatiale AS350B Squirrel delivered to RAN FAA ...
Australian Naval History on 14 February 1984
A Sydney-based syndicate announced plans to acquire the aircraft carrier, HMAS MELBOURNE for conversion to a floating gambling casino to be moored outside territorial waters off Eden, NSW. The far-fetched ...
Australian Naval History on 13 February 1984
Ships of the RAN were placed on standby for a possible rescue mission following reports of earthquakes close to Rabaul. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 February 1984
816 Squadron, equipped with Westland Wessex Mk.31B helicopters, commissioned at Nowra. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 January 1984
HMAS DUBBO, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was launched at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 January 1984
The destroyer escort HMAS STUART, (CMDR. C. Barrie, RAN), became the first large RAN warship to be home-ported on the Australian west coast. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 January 1984
HMA Ships WARNAMBOOL and BARBETTE, (patrol boats), escorted a Taiwanese motor trawler apprehended poaching in Australian waters off Great Detached Reef, into Cairns. The trawler was found guilty by a ...
Australian Naval History on 10 December 1983
The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS GERALDTON, was commissioned. GERALDTON was laid down in Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 December 1983
Claims that Harrier VSTOL aircraft from HMS HERMES theoretically ‘shot down waves’ of RAAF aircraft during Operation Kangaroo 83, revived misgivings about the withdrawal of carrier borne aircraft from the ...
Australian Naval History on 8 December 1983
851 Squadron aircraft perform last flypast of RAN fixed-wing aircraft at HMAS Creswell ...
Australian Naval History on 2 December 1983
A sailor and an RAAF fitter .were killed when a RAN Wessex helicopter, piloted by SBLT M. Henche, crashed in Bass Strait. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 November 1983
Redundant flying officers of the RAN Fleet Air Arm were recruited by the RN to man a Fleet Air Arm Squadron. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 November 1983
The Australian Government signed an agreement with waterfront trade unions to ensure a minimum of industrial disputes during the building of two guided missile frigates at Williamstown Dockyard, VIC. It ...
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1983
RADM G. Woolrych, AO, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1983
Former HMAS Colac ceased service as a tank cleaning vessel. After nine years in Reserve, Colac had been taken in hand in 1962 for conversion to a tank cleaning vessel. ...
Australian Naval History on 27 August 1983
The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS GAWLER, was commissioned at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 August 1983
In a small ceremony conducted in the small boats harbour at HMAS Stirling HMAS Adroit was turned over to the Commanding Officer of the Fremantle Port Division Commander Don Bantock, ...