On This Day
1960-1975 > Vietnam era
On This Day - 1960-1975
- July 5, 1962
HMAS MACQUARIE, (frigate), was sold out of service for breaking up in Japan.
- June 8, 1962
HMAS Koompartoo was sold.
- April 20, 1962
HMAS Parramatta joined her sister ship Yarra deploying to the Far East where the two ships relieved HMA Ships Quickmatch and Vampire in the Britsh Commonwealth Strategic Reserve. During that deployment Parramatta’s crew took part in the SEATO exercise SEA DEVIL before visiting Japan in company with other RAN vessels.
- March 7, 1962
HMAS SYDNEY was commissioned as a fast troop transport under CAPT R. I. Peek, OBE, DSC, RAN.
- March 3, 1962
The former cruiser HMAS HOBART departed Sydney under tow for breaking up in Japan.
- February 24, 1962
VADM Sir Wilfred Hastings Harrington, DSO, CBE, KBE, was appointed as Chief of Naval Staff.
- February 1, 1962
HMAS COOTAMUNDRA, (minesweeper), was sold out of service for breaking up.
- January 15, 1962
Divers discovered the wreck of MV FAIR WIND at the entrance to the Macleay River, NSW. The vessel was under charter to the RAN for surveying in New Guinea waters and vanished without trace in 1950 while on passage from Port Moresby to Sydney.
- January 8, 1962
RADM A. W. R. McNicoll, CBE, GM, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet.
- December 1, 1961
RAN Clearance Divers operating from HMAS KIMBLA, and the diving tender WALRUS, salvaged vital parts of a Viscount civil airliner, which had crashed with the loss of 15 lives into Botany Bay, NSW.