HMAS PARRAMATTA, (torpedo boat destroyer), received on board two released POWs taken when HMAS AE2, (submarine), was sunk in the Sea of Marmara. ...
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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. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 October 1918
HMAS Brisbane departed Sydney for England and was at sea en route from Colombo to Aden when the Armistice of 11 November 1918 ended hostilities in World War I. HMAS ...
Australian Naval History on 6 October 1918
The sloop HMAS FANTOME, (CAPT J. F. Robins, RN), was dispatched to Malaita on a punitive expedition. A force of 65 officers and ratings from FANTOME joined French settlers and ...