HMS AMPHION, (cruiser), later HMAS PERTH, was commissioned at Portsmouth. ...
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Australian Naval History on 7 May 1936
HMAS ANZAC, (destroyer leader), was sunk as a target off Sydney Heads. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 April 1936
RADM Sir Richard Hayden Owen Lane-Poole, KBE, CB, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding His Majesty’s Australian Squadron. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 March 1936
HMAS SWAN, (sloop), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 March 1936
The Seagull amphibian aircraft, from HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), was damaged when it fell from a crane at Malta. AUSTRALIA was on exchange duties with the RN at the time. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 March 1936
HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), joined HMAS AUSTRALIA in ADML Sir Max Horton’s 1st Cruiser Squadron at Malta. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 March 1936
The last Australian Seagull III was disembarked at Point Cook after being operated by HMAS Canberra during 1935-36 ...
Australian Naval History on 15 February 1936
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), exercised with ‘Queen Bees’, unmanned radio-controlled Moth aircraft, in the Mediterranean. HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and SHROPSHIRE, (cruisers), exercised together for the first time off Alexandria, Egypt. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 January 1936
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), in Alexandria, Egypt, fired a 70 gun salute on the occasion of the funeral of HM King George V. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 January 1936
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and SYDNEY, (cruisers), fired a 21-gun royal salute at sea on the accession to the throne of Edward VIII. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 January 1936
The Grimsby class escort sloop, HMAS YARRA, was commissioned. Mrs Parkhill, (Wife of the Minister for Defence), performed the commissioning ceremony. YARRA was laid down in Cockatoo Island Dockyard on ...
Australian Naval History on 20 January 1936
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and SYDNEY, (cruisers), fired a 70 gun salute on the death of King George V. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 January 1936
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), became Cock of the Mediterranean when she won the Cruiser Regatta from HMS LONDON. She also won this regatta. in 1935. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 October 1935
HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), was ordered to join the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Fleet was strengthened as a result of the Abyssinian Crisis. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 October 1935
Secret orders were received by HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), in the Mediterranean. In the event of war with Italy, AUSTRALIA was to join HMS BERWICK, and proceed to a position off ...
Australian Naval History on 8 October 1935
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser),won the Mediterranean Regatta against all ships of the Fleet. The cruiser scored 279.5 points, against HMS LONDON’S 276. ...
Australian Naval History on 24 September 1935
The modified Leander class cruiser HMAS SYDNEY, (CAPT J. U. C. Fitzgerald, RN), was commissioned at Portsmouth . SYDNEY was laid down in Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Yard, Wallsend-on-Tyne, ...
Australian Naval History on 12 September 1935
The first Seagull MK V amphibian was embarked in HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser). HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), also carried a Seagull A2-2. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 August 1935
The decommissioned MARGUERITE and MALLOW were sunk by gunfire and explosives off Sydney ...
Australian Naval History on 16 July 1935
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and BRISBANE, (cruisers), represented the RAN at the Jubilee Review of HRH King George V, at Spithead, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 June 1935
HMAS BRISBANE, (cruiser), was ordered to assist HMS HASTINGS, (sloop), which ran aground on Shab Kutle Reef in the Red Sea. The cruiser stood by the stranded ship for a ...
Australian Naval History on 2 May 1935
HMAS Brisbane sailed for England manned by a complement which would form the balance of the ship’s company of the new HMAS Sydney (ex-HMS Phaeton) ...
Australian Naval History on 16 April 1935
The hulk of the former HMAS Geranium was towed out of Sydney Harbour by the tug Chesterfield and she was scuttled approximately 40 kilometres off Sydney Heads later that day. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 March 1935
HMAS YARRA, (sloop), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 March 1935
The Standard of the Duke of Gloucester was re-hoisted in HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), at Kingston, Jamaica, when the Duke re-embarked for the voyage to Portsmouth. ...