HMAS VAMPIRE, (Daring class destroyer), and the Danish ship EMILIE MAERSK, collided in the Bangkok River, Thailand. As damage to the destroyer required dockyard assistance, VAMPIRE set course for Singapore ...
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Australian Naval History on 20 May 1966
Over the night of May 20th and into the morning of May 21st HMAS VENDETTA and 723 Squadron scrambled two Iroquois to search for survivors from the Dredge WD Atlas ...
Australian Naval History on 5 May 1966
HMAS Brisbane (II) was launched by the wife of the Minister for the Navy, Mrs Mavis Mary Chaney, in front of a crowd of approximately 5000 people. After receiving a ...
Australian Naval History on 28 April 1966
Sea Venom WZ900 (866) crashed off HMAS MELBOURNE in the Philippine Sea. Arrestor wire parted during carrier landing, aircraft crashed into sea. The accident happened at approx 1500 Hrs. Pilot ...
Australian Naval History on 25 April 1966
HMAS SYDNEY, (fast troop transport), sailed on her fourth voyage to Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 29 March 1966
The New York Times announced that the USN, with the co-operation of the RAN and the RAAF, would carry out an aerial survey of northern Australia, New Guinea and adjacent ...
Australian Naval History on 18 March 1966
The RAN Clearance Diving Teams 1 and 2 were formed. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 March 1966
The Queen’s Commendation was awarded to the following personnel of the RAN’s Clearance Diving Teams for rendering safe, and later destroying, a World War II mine, washed ashore in a ...
Australian Naval History on 13 March 1966
While patrolling off Raffles Light HMAS Hawk came under fire by an Indonesian shore battery, even though she was inside Singaporean territorial waters. Eleven rounds were fired at the ship, ...
Australian Naval History on 1 March 1966
The last recorded RAN Fairey Firefly flight; after being withdrawn from frontline service in 1955. ...