The Australian Naval Board informed the Admiralty that “a small minesweeping flotilla is being trained at Sydney and Melbourne”. The vessels were requisitioned tugs and trawlers manned by the Australian ...
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Australian Naval History on 5 March 1917
HMAS SLEUTH, (armed yacht), joined the Torres Strait Patrol. The Australian Naval Board feared German raiders would mine the straits. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 February 1917
HM Submarine J7, later HMA Submarine J7, was launched at Devonport, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 February 1917
The Australian transport BERRIMA, formerly HMAS BERRIMA, (armed merchant cruiser), was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 February 1917
SBLT R. S. Dallas, an Australian serving with the RNAS, shot down a German Aviatik aircraft over France. Dallas was flying a Sopwith triplane. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 February 1917
On 12 February 1917 HMAT Afric was sunk in the English Channel after being torpedoed by the German submarine SM UC-66, whilst sailing outbound between Liverpool and Plymouth, 12 miles ...
Australian Naval History on 1 February 1917
The German Government ordered unrestricted submarine warfare against Allied shipping. SBLT R. S. Dallas, an Australian serving with the RNAS, shot down a German Aviatik aircraft over France. Dallas was ...
Australian Naval History on 13 January 1917
The armed yacht and patrol vessel HMAS SLEUTH was commissioned. As the steam-yacht ENA she was built in Sydney in 1901. ENA was requisitioned for patrol service in January 1917. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 January 1917
The Australian Destroyer Squadron patrolled the waters south and west of Singapore. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 December 1916
A spartan Christmas was the lot of HMAS HUON, (torpedo boat destroyer), in Malayan waters:- ‘On patrol-dirty weather -had bully beef and biscuits and some duff knocked up by ourselves’. ...