Australia signed the Manila Treaty to form a military alliance with France, US, UK, New Zealand, Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand, to be known as the South East Asia Treaty Organisation, ...
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Australian Naval History on 1 September 1954
HMAS TIDE AUSTRAL, later renamed SUPPLY, was launched at Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 August 1954
HMAS AUSTRALIA (II) was paid off having steamed 477,301 miles in the period since August 1939. She was sold as scrap to British Iron and Steel Corporation (Salvage) Ltd on ...
Australian Naval History on 3 August 1954
850 Squadron decommissioned and 851 Squadron commissioned at NAS Nowra as a training squadron flying Fairey Fireflies and Douglas Dakotas. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 June 1954
Delivery of the first RAN Vampire trainer took place when Lieutenant Peter Goldrick, RAN accepted the de Havilland Sea Vampire Mk T.34 at the de Havilland workshop in Bankstown on ...
Australian Naval History on 29 May 1954
The Captain of HMAS VENGEANCE, (aircraft carrier), reported that on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Australia, the ship’s company spelt out the royal signature on the ship’s ...
Australian Naval History on 4 May 1954
850 and 805 Squadron tours in Korea ends. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 April 1954
HMAS Culgoa paid off into Reserve on 15 April 1954, having steamed 167,447 miles. She remained in Reserve until used as an accommodation ship for Sydney minesweeping base, HMAS Waterhen. On ...
Australian Naval History on 5 April 1954
HMAS Bataan was damaged in a collision with HMAS Vengeance during replenishment operations in the vicinity of the Cocos Islands ...
Australian Naval History on 17 March 1954
HMAS Macquarie paid off into Reserve at Sydney. She was sold to be broken up as scrap on 5 July 1962 to HC Sleigh & Co for Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty ...