On This Day
1976-1999 > Post Vietnam
On This Day - 1976-1999
- June 17, 1991
RAN ships PALUMA and MERMAID, (survey vessels), made a goodwill visit to the Aboriginal community at Milikipati, on Melville Island. The ships were surveying in the area.
- June 9, 1991
HMAS Westralia (II) returned to Australia on completion of her participation in Operation DAMASK II.
- June 4, 1991
HMAS DARWIN, (guided missile frigate), arrived in the Arabian Gulf to relieve HMAS BRISBANE, (guided missile destroyer). BRISBANE was the only RAN destroyer to see service in the Arabian Gulf.
- June 2, 1991
During Operation Gulf Storm, HMAS BENDIGO, (patrol boat), intercepted and boarded the first of 42 foreign fishing vessels intruding in Australian waters, off the east coast of Tasmania. This training exercise was conducted with the- Australian Fisheries Service.
- June 1, 1991
HMAS JERVIS BAY, (training ship), arrived at Honiara, (Solomon Islands), for a goodwill visit to the area.
- May 20, 1991
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), arrived at the port of Pireaus, Greece, to take part in the 50th Anniversary commemorations of the Greece and Crete Campaigns. During her time in the Mediterranean she embarked a number of RAN and AIF veterans of the campaigns.
- May 14, 1991
Sea King helicopters from 817 Squadron, (RAN), rescued 38 people cut off by flood waters on the NSW south coast. The Squadron was later awarded a NSW Police Commendation for the operation.
- April 22, 1991
HMAS BRISANE, (guided missile destroyer), and HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), returned to their home port of Sydney, after serving in the Persian Gulf during Operation Damask, (1st Gulf War). Operation Dsmask was the Australian code name for the US Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield
- April 4, 1991
The battleship USS MISSOURI visited Fremantle, WA on her return to her base of San Diego after Gulf War service.
- March 9, 1991
VADM I.D.G. MacDougall is appointed Chief of Naval Staff. He was the first RAN submariner to reach this position.