On This Day
1976-1999 > Post Vietnam
On This Day - 1976-1999
- May 7, 1992
The former HMAS STUART, (River class destroyer escort), sailed for Singapore to be broken up.
- May 1, 1992
12 RAN and USN vessels, led by the 80,000 tonne aircraft carrier USS Independence, in a fleet entry into Sydney Harbour commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
- April 1, 1992
The last naval pilots graduated from the RAAF’s No.1 Flying School at Point Cook, VIC. They were SBLT Marcus McGregor, RAN, and MIDN Robert Needham, RAN. From then on all pilot training was conducted at RAAF Base Pearce, WA.
- March 28, 1992
HMAS Adroit decommissioned at HMAS Stirling
- March 22, 1992
Patrol boats participating in Exercise Kangaroo 92 arrested three Indonesian trawlers in the Australian Fishing Zone.
- March 19, 1992
The RAN officially adopted the Slouch Hat, (termed Wide Brimmed Hat), as an item of uniform for all ranks. It had for many years, at least since World War I, been used by RAN personnel operating in tropical areas such as New Guinea.
- March 18, 1992
LCDR Peter Nelson, RAN, was invested with the Air Force Cross by the Queen for Gallantry in the 1st Gulf War. LCDR Nelson was attached to a Royal Navy Sea King Squadron operating in the Persian Gulf area. He was awarded the medal for gallantry in evacuating wounded personnel from the frontline despite enemy fire and being hampered by severe sand storms
- March 17, 1992
HMA Ships TORRENS, (destroyer escort), and GLADSTONE, (patrol boat), were the first ships of the RAN to enter the Filipino ports of Bitung and Cagayan de Cro.
- March 15, 1992
RAN marksman, WOQMG C. Dowd, of HMAS CERBERUS, won the Australian Army’s Highest Possible Score Cross. WOQMG Dowd was a medal winner at the 1990 Bisley Shoot.
- March 12, 1992
The guided missile frigate HMAS DARWIN, (CMDR Martyn Bell, RAN), commenced boarding and searching operations in the Red Sea. She operated with the United Nations force policing trade with Iraq.