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, ...
Australian Naval History on 2 August 1983
HMAS GAWLER, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 July 1983
HMAS GAWLER, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1983
Operational flying of jet aircraft in the RAN ceased. ...