The RNAS was abolished and naval air support was provided by the RAF, but several Australians served with distinction in the British RNAS. ...
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Australian Naval History on 26 March 1918
HMAS Psyche decommissioned for the last time. Psyche remained moored in Sydney Harbour and was eventually sold as a timber lighter on 21 July 1922. She later sank in Salamander ...
Australian Naval History on 8 March 1918
A Sopwith 1½ Strutter aircraft was successfully launched from HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser). ...
Australian Naval History on 28 February 1918
Recruiting commenced for the RAN Brigade (RANB) Naval Guard Section. The RANB had been formed in 1917, and applied retrospectively from 1914 to appropriate Naval personnel.They were given their own specially designed ...
Australian Naval History on 8 February 1918
The Australian Government purchased Williamstown Dockyard from the State of Victoria, a dockyard that had served the Colonial Victorian Naval Forces up until Federation in 1901 and was used as ...
Australian Naval History on 31 January 1918
MIDN E.F. Cunningham, RAN was drowned when the submarine HMS K17, in which he was serving, was rammed and sunk by a British warship in the North Sea. Cunningham was ...
Australian Naval History on 15 January 1918
C in C, China Station, received a signal which contained information solving the fate of the Burns Philp steamer MATUNGA, which disappeared mysteriously on a voyage from Sydney to Port ...
Australian Naval History on 14 January 1918
PO P. J. Kempster, DSM, died when HM Submarine G8 was lost in the North Sea. Kempster was an RAN rating on loan to the RN and had been awarded ...
Australian Naval History on 3 January 1918
The Minesweeping Section of the RAN, under LCDR F. J. Ranken, RNR, completed the first sweeping of a minefield in Australian waters. The field, off Cape Otway, was laid by ...
Australian Naval History on 25 December 1917
HMAS HUON, (torpedo boat destroyer), transported the Greek Prime Minister, M. Venizelos and his staff, from Taranto to Pireaus. A crewman wrote: ‘As we passed the British cruisers they gave ...