HMAS Platypus paid off to recommission in her former role as a Submarine Tender after 2 Royal Navy O Class submarines joined the RAN ...
Australian Naval History on 22 February 1929
HMAS Brisbane decommissioned again on 22 January 1929 and then on 16 August 1929 Brisbane was placed in C-Class Reserve and then finally on 1 December 1930 she paid off ...
Australian Naval History on 16 November 1928
LEUT Frank E. Getting assumed command of HMAS Oxley to become the first RANC Graduate to command an RAN warship ...
Australian Naval History on 7 June 1928
HMAS Huon paid off into Reserve at Sydney. Without being again brought back into service, Huon was sunk by gunfire as a target off Sydney on 10 April 1931. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 April 1928
HMAS Parramatta paid off. On 17 October 1929 she was handed over to Cockatoo Dockyard for dismantling. Her hull was subsequently used as an accommodation vessel, on the Hawkesbury River, ...
Australian Naval History on 19 April 1928
HMAS Warrego paid off. She was then handed over to Cockatoo Dockyard in October 1929 and was broken up in 1930. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 January 1928
HMAS Tasmania decommissioned and was placed in reserve. Tasmania was eventually sold for breaking up on 4 June 1937. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 November 1927
HMAS Geranium was decommissioned and placed in reserve at Sydney ...
Australian Naval History on 20 July 1926
LEUT Norman. H. Shaw was appointed to Command the Royal Navy submarine HMS H27 becoming the first RANC Graduate to command a warship. He was 26 years and 11 days ...
Australian Naval History on 1 December 1925
HMAS Stalwart decommissioned. She remained in reserve after decommissioning until she was eventually sold for breaking up on 4 June 1937. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 July 1925
While HMAS Brisbane was at Hong Kong, there was a major landslide in the Po Hing Fong district which destroyed many homes and killed 73 people. Warrant Officer Shipwright Robert ...
Australian Naval History on 27 June 1923
HMAS Geranium struck a reef while surveying. She was re-floated the next day at high tide, but her keel was badly buckled and holed in places. The reef that Geranium ...
Australian Naval History on 1 January 1923
HMAS Penguin paid off for disposal. She had served as a depot ship at Garden island since commissioning into the RAN in 1913. On 9 May 1923 she was towed ...
Australian Naval History on 21 January 1921
HMAS Melbourne was involved in the dramatic rescue of 18 people from the sinking US registered schooner Helen B Sterling. The Helen B Sterling had departed Newcastle in early January ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1920
HMAS Encounter paid off into reserve . She was assigned to the naval base at Garden Island as a depot ship in May 1923, and was renamed HMAS Penguin ...
Australian Naval History on 19 July 1920
HMAS Torrens was paid off into reserve. The destroyer was relocated to Flinders Naval Depot in July 1924, and although not recommissioned, was used for the training of naval reservists. ...
Australian Naval History on 5 December 1919
HMAS Encounter permanently transferred from the RN to the RAN ...
Australian Naval History on 17 April 1919
HMAS Brisbane sailed from Portsmouth for Australia via Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, Singapore and Darwin. She later joined submarine HMAS J5, already on her way to Australia, and assumed ...
Australian Naval History on 17 March 1919
After their service with the RN is finished HMA Ships HMAS Melbourne , Torrens, Huon, Warrego, Swan, Yarra and Parramatta sailed from Malta for Australia ...
Australian Naval History on 7 March 1919
HMAS Melbourne’s service in the European theatre ended when she departed Devonport for Australia, finally entering Sydney Harbour on 21 May 1919 after a leisurely cruise via Suez, Singapore and ...
Australian Naval History on 23 August 1918
HMAS Gayundah finally paid off in Melbourne. Sold in 1921 to Brisbane Gravel Pty Ltd, she returned to Queensland and began a long and useful career as a sand and ...
Australian Naval History on 7 November 1916
HMAS Pioneer paid off at Sydney. Thereafter she was used as an accommodation ship at Garden Island until 1922. In May 1923 she was handed over to Cockatoo Dockyard by ...
Australian Naval History on 27 June 1916
HMAS Melbourne sailed from Birkenhead to rejoin the Grand Fleet at Scapa and again became a unit of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron ...
Australian Naval History on 12 February 1916
While HMAS Pioneer was visiting Port Swettenham (Kelang) tensions aboard ship came to a head and seven stokers refused duty, an action that eventually led to their respective court martials. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 August 1909
Detailed discussions were held between representatives of the British Admiralty and the Australian Government that resulted in a decision to proceed with the establishment of an Australian Fleet Unit ...