HMAS Platypus paid off to recommission in her former role as a Submarine Tender after 2 Royal Navy O Class submarines joined the RAN ...
On This Day
Australian Naval History on 25 February 1929
Six Seagull Mk III amphibian aircraft embarked in seaplane carrier HMAS ALBATROSS at Melbourne. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 February 1929
HMAS Brisbane decommissioned again on 22 January 1929 and then on 16 August 1929 Brisbane was placed in C-Class Reserve and then finally on 1 December 1930 she paid off ...
Australian Naval History on 19 February 1929
LEUT Norman H. Shaw became the youngest officer to command a RAN submarine. Shaw was 28 Years and 228 days old when he took command of HMAS Otway ...
Australian Naval History on 23 January 1929
The seaplane carrier HMAS ALBATROSS, (CAPT D. M. T. Bedford, RN), was commissioned at Sydney. Lady Stonehaven, (Wife of the Governor General), performed the commissioning ceremony. ALBATROSS was laid down ...
Australian Naval History on 16 November 1928
LEUT Frank E. Getting assumed command of HMAS Oxley to become the first RANC Graduate to command an RAN warship ...
Australian Naval History on 1 September 1928
A proposal to transfer the main base of the RAN from Sydney to Port Stephens, NSW, was laid before the Australian Government. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 August 1928
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), sailed from Portsmouth on her maiden voyage to Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 July 1928
The County class heavy cruiser HMAS CANBERRA, (CAPT G. L. Massey, RN), was commissioned. CANBERRA was laid down in John Brown Yard, Clydebank, Scotland, in 1925, and launched on 31 ...
Australian Naval History on 9 June 1928
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith, in his aircraft Southern Cross, completed the first trans-Pacific flight The aircraft was guided in the last leg of it’s history making flight by the RAN’s ...