The guided missile destroyer HMAS PERTH, (CAPT P. Doyle, RAN), relieved USS GOLDSBOROUGH as command ship of Task Unit 77.1.2 off Vietnam. ...
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Australian Naval History on 11 December 1967
HMAS SYDNEY, (fast troop transport), completed her eighth round trip to Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 November 1967
RAN divers from CDT 3 removed a length of heavy steel cable which had wrapped around the starboard propeller of the Australian Army ship HARRY CHAUVEL, at Vung Tau, Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 November 1967
First Operational Grumman Tracker S2E aircraft delivered to the RAN. (One non flying S2A and one non flying S2E had been delivered in 1966 for training) ...
Australian Naval History on 17 November 1967
The Attack class patrol boat HMAS ATTACK, (LCDR R. J. R. Pennock, RAN), the lead vessel of the Attack class patrol boats, was commissioned. ATTACK was laid down in Evans ...
Australian Naval History on 13 November 1967
The Attack class patrol boat HMAS AITAPE, (LCDR W. S. G. Bateman, RAN), was commissioned. AITAPE was laid down in Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, QLD, in November 1966, and launched on ...
Australian Naval History on 2 November 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), attacked enemy supply craft and a boat-building yard, on the Son Giang River, Vietnam. PO R. A. Donne, (RAN Clearance Diving Team 3), was wounded ...
Australian Naval History on 31 October 1967
HMAS Melbourne departed from San Diego for the return journey to Australia after a journey to collect new FAA aircraft. She visited Pearl Harbor and Suva en route, and arrived ...
Australian Naval History on 30 October 1967
The RAN-chartered MV JEPARIT, (general-purpose bulk carrier), sailed from Sydney on her 10th voyage to Vietnam. The ship was commissioned on 11 December 1969, following industrial stoppages. JEPARIT was paid ...
Australian Naval History on 24 October 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), sank three enemy supply junks north of the Demilitarised Zone in Vietnam. ...