On This Day
1919-1938 > Depresssion and between the wars
On This Day - 1919-1938
- December 1, 1925
HMAS Stalwart decommissioned. She remained in reserve after decommissioning until she was eventually sold for breaking up on 4 June 1937.
- November 12, 1925
LEUT R. C. Casey, RAN, a 1916 entry to the Royal Australian Naval College, was lost when HM submarine M1 was lost with all hands off Devon, England.
- July 23, 1925
A US Naval Squadron consisting of US Ships CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, IDAHO, MARYLANDMISSISSIPPI, TENNESSEE, and WEST VIRGINIA, arrived at Sydney for a goodwill visit.
- July 18, 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 Cargin from Brisbane was ashore at the time visiting friends and took part in the rescue operations; he was later awarded the Bronze Lifesaving Medal of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem for ‘conspicuous gallantry for saving life at imminent personal risk in connection with the Po Hing Fong disaster at Hong Kong’
- June 26, 1925
HMAS BRISBANE, (cruiser), was attached to the RN’s China Squadron.
- June 25, 1925
HMS CONCORD, (cruiser), sailed from Sydney on the completion of her exchange deployment with the Australian Squadron.
- June 20, 1925
The surveying vessel, HMAS MORESBY (CAPT J. Edgell, RN), a former 24 class convoy sloop HMS SILVIO, was commissioned into the RAN in the UK. Moresby sailed from England for Australia on 28 June 1925. En route she visited Gibraltar, Port Said, Aden, Colombo Singapore, and Thursday Island before arriving in Brisbane on 10 September 1925
- June 16, 1925
Commonwealth Navy Order 137 of 1925 was promulgated establishing a Fleet Air Arm for the RAN and inviting applications from officers to undergo a four-year Long Air Course. The first iteration of the Fleet Air Arm was short-lived, however, and it was disbanded by Commonwealth Navy Order 1 of 1929, promulgated on 8 January 1929. That order stated that the RAAF was to provide all naval aircraft and the personnel to fly and maintain them while the RAN would provide observers and telegraphist air gunners. A dedicated Fleet Air Arm was reinstituted in the RAN in 1948
- March 25, 1925
The cruiser HMS CONCORD, (CAPT A. R. W. Woods, RN), joined the Australian Squadron for an exchange deployment. She was met by HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), at Broome Bay, WA. CONCORD’s place in the Royal Navy was taken by HMAS ADELAIDE, (cruiser), which joined the 1st Cruiser Squadron at Gibraltar.
- March 5, 1925
The Australian Government approved the building of two Kent class cruisers for the RAN. These were later commissioned as HMAS AUSTRALIA, and HMAS CANBERRA.