A sub lieutenant and four midshipmen were drowned when a whaler from HMAS SYDNEY, (aircraft carrier), was swamped off Hayman Island, in the Great Barrier Reef. ...
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Australian Naval History on 4 October 1963
The Australian Government placed orders for two Oberon class submarines with Scott’s Shipbuilding, Scotland. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 September 1963
The 16th MCM Squadron with 6 Bird class minesweepers deploy as part of Operation GARDENING, a minesweeping task to clear a channel into Tonolei Harbour in Bougainville, where US aircraft had ...
Australian Naval History on 15 August 1963
HMAS Warrego paid off, one week short of her 23rd birthday, having steamed 440,978 miles since commissioning on 22 August 1940. In the post war period Warrego made a significant ...
Australian Naval History on 9 August 1963
The Minister for Defence, Senator J. Gorton, announced that the Australian Minesweeping Squadron would sweep mines in Bougainville waters. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 July 1963
817 squadron recommissioned with the Wessex 31A helicopter ...
Australian Naval History on 5 July 1963
A Sea Venom crashed into Sydney Harbour following a collision with another Sea Venom during a flypast. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 June 1963
The River class, (modified type 12 frigate), destroyer escort, HMAS STUART, (CMDR M. L. Molony, RAN), was commissioned. STUART was laid down in Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, on 20 March ...
Australian Naval History on 30-june-1963
805 Squadron, flying Sea Venoms, decommissioned ...
Australian Naval History on 8 May 1963
HMAS QUEENBOROUGH, (frigate), struck HMS TABARD, (submarine), while exercising off Sydney. Both vessels were damaged but returned to Port under their own power. ...