HMS AMPHION, (cruiser), later HMAS PERTH, was commissioned at Portsmouth. ...
On This Day
Australian Naval History on 7 May 1936
HMAS ANZAC, (destroyer leader), was sunk as a target off Sydney Heads. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 April 1936
RADM Sir Richard Hayden Owen Lane-Poole, KBE, CB, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding His Majesty’s Australian Squadron. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 March 1936
HMAS SWAN, (sloop), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 March 1936
The Seagull amphibian aircraft, from HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), was damaged when it fell from a crane at Malta. AUSTRALIA was on exchange duties with the RN at the time. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 March 1936
HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), joined HMAS AUSTRALIA in ADML Sir Max Horton’s 1st Cruiser Squadron at Malta. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 March 1936
The last Australian Seagull III was disembarked at Point Cook after being operated by HMAS Canberra during 1935-36 ...
Australian Naval History on 15 February 1936
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), exercised with ‘Queen Bees’, unmanned radio-controlled Moth aircraft, in the Mediterranean. HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and SHROPSHIRE, (cruisers), exercised together for the first time off Alexandria, Egypt. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 January 1936
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), in Alexandria, Egypt, fired a 70 gun salute on the occasion of the funeral of HM King George V. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 January 1936
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and SYDNEY, (cruisers), fired a 21-gun royal salute at sea on the accession to the throne of Edward VIII. ...