HMAS Melbourne’s service in the European theatre ended when she departed Devonport for Australia, finally entering Sydney Harbour on 21 May 1919 after a leisurely cruise via Suez, Singapore and ...
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Australian Naval History on 9 February 1919
HMS VENDETTA, later HMAS VENDETTA, (destroyer), engaged Bolshevik ground troops with gunfire at Windau in the Baltic to relieve Red Army pressure on the Lettish Army. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 January 1919
HMAS FANTOME, (survey ship), resumed survey duties after WW1. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 January 1919
HMA Ships PARRAMATTA and HUON, (torpedo boat destroyers), were damaged in a gale off Cape Finisterre and put into the Spanish port of Ferrol for repairs. The Admiralty presented six ...
Australian Naval History on 28 December 1918
HM Ships SWORDSMAN and TATTOO, (destroyers), were launched at British shipyards. Both vessels were transferred to Australia after hostilities ended, and were commissioned into the RAN. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 December 1918
HMA Ships PARRAMATTA, SWAN, YARRA, and HUON, (torpedo boat destroyers), sailed from Ismid, in the Sea of Marmara, for Malta, where they were joined by sister ships TORRENS and WARREGO, ...
Australian Naval History on 25 December 1918
CMDR W. Burrows assumed command of the Australian Torpedo Boat Destroyer Squadron. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 December 1918
HMAS MOURILYAN, (auxiliary patrol vessel), was paid off and returned to her owners. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 December 1918
HMAS BRISBANE, (light cruiser), arrived at Sevastopol to support White Russian forces in resisting the advance of the Bolshevik army. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 December 1918
HMAS BRISBANE, (light cruiser), operated with the Australian Destroyer Flotilla in the Black Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 December 1918
The Australian Government approved the purchase of aircraft carried in ships of the RAN based in the UK. The decision was later rescinded on the grounds that maintenance facilities were ...
Australian Naval History on 8 December 1918
CMDR J. Bond, RAN, of HMAS SWAN, (destroyer), led a party of Australian and French officers to Novocherkassk to meet General Krasnoff, Commander of White Russian troops in South Russia. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 December 1918
HMAS SWAN, and the French Ship BISSON, (destroyers), entered the Sea of Azov to observe the state of White Russians in the area. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 December 1918
Port examination stations at principal ports in Australia were closed down. During the war the stations were manned by the Naval Brigade. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 November 1918
HMAS PARRAMATTA, (torpedo boat destroyer), entered the Black Sea. PARRAMATTA was employed as a dispatch boat between Sevastopol and Constantinople. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 November 1918
HMS TASMANIA was launched at Beardmore’s Yard, UK. The destroyer was transferred to the RAN in 1919. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 November 1918
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA, (battle cruiser), SYDNEY, and MELBOURNE, (cruisers), were present at the surrender of the German Fleet in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. AUSTRALIA led the Port Division of ...
Australian Naval History on 17 November 1918
HMAS PARRAMATTA, (torpedo boat destroyer), received on board two released POWs taken when HMAS AE2, (submarine), was sunk in the Sea of Marmara. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 November 1918
HMAS PARRAMATTA, (torpedo boat destroyer), stood off the Sultan’s Palace at Constantinople, as a unit of the British and French Fleet occupying the Turkish capital. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 November 1918
Germany signed the Armistice to end WWI. The RAN lost the submarines AE1 and AE2 during the war. Over 240 RAN personnel lost their lives during the war, both within ...
Australian Naval History on 30 October 1918
HMAS HUON, (torpedo boat destroyer), landed Allied peace delegates at the Turkish port of Smyrna. ...
Australian Naval History on 29 October 1918
The Australian hospital ship KAROOLA repatriated British POWs released by Turks at Beirut and Tripoli. On 3 October 1915, she took off the crew of the Highland Warrior, torpedoed off ...
Australian Naval History on 28 October 1918
HMA Ships PARRAMATTA, YARRA, and TORRENS, (torpedo boat destroyers), provided cover for the landing of Allied troops at Dedeagach, in the Dardanelles. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 October 1918
HMAS SWAN, (torpedo boat destroyer), rescued the crew of an aircraft which had force-landed in the Mediterranean. The aircraft had been operating with a Japanese destroyer flotilla escorting a convoy ...
Australian Naval History on 23 October 1918
HMS STALWART, (destroyer), later HMAS STALWART, was launched at Swan Hunter’s, England. ...