Fleet Air Arm Squadrons, No.805, (Skyhawks), and No.816, (Trackers), were commissioned into the RAN. ...
On This Day
Australian Naval History on 27 December 1967
HMAS SYDNEY, (troop carrier), arrived at Vung Tau, Vietnam, and landed the 7th Royal Australian Regiment. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 December 1967
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), and USS CANBERRA, (guided missile heavy cruiser), attacked an enemy missile site near Dong Hoi, Vietnam, with gunfire. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 December 1967
HMAS PERTH and USS HAMNER, (guided missile destroyers), came under heavy fire from Viet Cong shore batteries off Dong Hoi. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 December 1967
HMAS SWAN, (destroyer escort), was launched at Williamstown Naval Dockyard, VIC. The Perth class, (Charles F Adams, DDG), guided missile destroyer HMAS BRISBANE, (CAPT A. A. Willis, RAN), was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 December 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), sank four and damaged four, enemy supply craft near Dong Hoi, Vietnam. Later, on the same day, PERTH fired on three barges alongside a pier ...
Australian Naval History on 12 December 1967
The guided missile destroyer HMAS PERTH, (CAPT P. Doyle, RAN), relieved USS GOLDSBOROUGH as command ship of Task Unit 77.1.2 off Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 December 1967
HMAS SYDNEY, (fast troop transport), completed her eighth round trip to Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 November 1967
RAN divers from CDT 3 removed a length of heavy steel cable which had wrapped around the starboard propeller of the Australian Army ship HARRY CHAUVEL, at Vung Tau, Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 November 1967
First Operational Grumman Tracker S2E aircraft delivered to the RAN. (One non flying S2A and one non flying S2E had been delivered in 1966 for training) ...
Australian Naval History on 17 November 1967
The Attack class patrol boat HMAS ATTACK, (LCDR R. J. R. Pennock, RAN), the lead vessel of the Attack class patrol boats, was commissioned. ATTACK was laid down in Evans ...
Australian Naval History on 13 November 1967
The Attack class patrol boat HMAS AITAPE, (LCDR W. S. G. Bateman, RAN), was commissioned. AITAPE was laid down in Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, QLD, in November 1966, and launched on ...
Australian Naval History on 2 November 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), attacked enemy supply craft and a boat-building yard, on the Son Giang River, Vietnam. PO R. A. Donne, (RAN Clearance Diving Team 3), was wounded ...
Australian Naval History on 31 October 1967
HMAS Melbourne departed from San Diego for the return journey to Australia after a journey to collect new FAA aircraft. She visited Pearl Harbor and Suva en route, and arrived ...
Australian Naval History on 30 October 1967
The RAN-chartered MV JEPARIT, (general-purpose bulk carrier), sailed from Sydney on her 10th voyage to Vietnam. The ship was commissioned on 11 December 1969, following industrial stoppages. JEPARIT was paid ...
Australian Naval History on 24 October 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), sank three enemy supply junks north of the Demilitarised Zone in Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), was hit by Viet Cong batteries north of the Demilitarised Zone. Four of PERTH’s crew were wounded in the action. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 October 1967
The first contingent of the RAN Helicopter Flight, led by LCDR N. Ralph, RAN, arrived in Vietnam. The flight operated with the US 135th Assault Helicopter Company, and flew turbojet ...
Australian Naval History on 10 October 1967
The guided missile destroyer HMAS PERTH, (CAPT P. H. Doyle, RAN), engaged enemy artillery batteries south of the demilitarised zone in Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 September 1967
HMAS Perth (II) arrived off the coast of Vietnam on her first deployment as Australia’s contribution to the US 7th Fleet operation during the Vietnam War. As a unit of ...
Australian Naval History on 18 September 1967
A memorial to US Submariners who lost their lives in submarines operating out of Fremantle, WA, during WWII, was unveiled at that port by RADM Herman J. Kossler, USN. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 September 1967
The guided missile destroyer, HMAS PERTH, (CAPT P. H. Doyle, RAN), joined the US Seventh Fleet, for operations against North Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 August 1967
Four members of Clearance Diving Team 3 participated in an unsuccessful assault on strong enemy positions on the banks of a channel near Nui Truong Phi, Vietnam. The force was ...
Australian Naval History on 25 August 1967
816 Squadron decommissioned while preparations were made to receive its new Grumman S-2E/G Tracker aircraft. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 August 1967
HMAS PLATYPUS, the new RAN submarine base, was commissioned at Neutral Bay, Sydney, conjointly with the Australian Fourth Submarine Squadron. ...