50 personnel from the RANBT, under CMDR L. S. Bracegirdle, RAN, landed at El Arish on the Sinai Peninsula, to build a pier to land supplies in support of the ...
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Australian Naval History on 20 December 1916
HMAT Itonus torpedoed and sunk near Malta in the Mediterranean by Austrian submarine U-38 on 20 Dec 1916 as she was making her way from Marseilles to Sydney with a ...
Australian Naval History on 20 December 1916
HMA Ships SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, (cruisers), were damaged when the destroyers HOSTE and NEGRO collided and sank off Norway. Both ships lost a man and seven were injured when the ...
Australian Naval History on 13 December 1916
HMAS Brisbane departed Sydney for war service in the Mediterranean, arriving at Malta on 4 February 1917 ...
Australian Naval History on 1 December 1916
HMAS SYDNEY saw her first action in the North Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 November 1916
The Australian ship WARILDA was converted to a hospital ship at Garden Island, Sydney. In February 1918 the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel, but ...
Australian Naval History on 18 November 1916
The Australian transport BERRIMA, (ex-HMAS BERRIMA, armed merchant cruiser), was torpedoed by a German submarine off Portland, England. BERRIMA was empty, having unloaded 1600 troops at Plymouth two days before. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 November 1916
HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), joined the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron at Rosyth, Scotland. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 November 1916
SBLT R. A. Little, an Australian serving with the RNAS, shot down a German Aviatik aircraft over Beau-mont-Hamel, France. Little was flying a Sopwith Pup. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 November 1916
HMAS FANTOME, (sloop), intercepted a Chinese junk in the Nicobar Islands. The vessel was later released when it was found the junk was not a contraband runner. ...