A Naval Detachment of one officer and 18 sailors was embarked in the ANL vessel JEPARIT. These men helped crew the vessel on its voyages to South Vietnam due to ...
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Australian Naval History on 7 March 1967
The guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSC, RAN), sailed from Garden Island to join the US Seventh Fleet off Vietnam. HOBART was the first RAN ship ...
Australian Naval History on 1 March 1967
The Australian White Ensign was hoisted in all ships and establishments of the RAN. The British White Ensign had been used by the RAN since 1913. The supply ship HMAS ...
Australian Naval History on 19 February 1967
RAN Clearance Diving Teams commenced operations in Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 February 1967
The crews of HMAS DERWENT, (destroyer escort), and HM Submarines TABARD and TRUMP, landed to fight disastrous bushfires near Hobart, TAS. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 February 1967
The Peruvian Navy training ship INDEPENCIA visited Sydney. The vessel was the first warship of Peru to visit Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 6 February 1967
Clearance Diving Team 3, LEUT M. T. Shotter, RAN, arrived at Vung Tau. This was the first unit of the RAN to serve in Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 December 1966
The Prime Minister, Mr Harold Holt, announced to Parliament that the new Australian White Ensign was formally approved. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 November 1966
As the floating crane “Falcon” was lifting a Tracker S2E, Bu No 151646, from the Pyrmont wharf on to a lighter, a sling broke and the aircraft fell into Sydney ...
Australian Naval History on 7 November 1966
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II gave Royal Consent to the new Australian White Ensign. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 November 1966
HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), towed the USS TIRU, (submarine), off Frederick Reef in the Coral Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 October 1966
HMAS QUEENBOROUGH, (frigate), made a high speed dash from Hobart to Macquarie Island, to rescue a seriously ill scientist of the Australian Antarctic Expedition. ...
Australian Naval History on 7 October 1966
The largest warship to be built in Australia, HMAS STALWART, (escort maintenance ship), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 August 1966
Confrontation between Malaysia and Indonesia officially ceased. Several RAN units, including destroyer escorts, and the Ton class minesweepers, had been involved in the confrontation, mainly conducting anti-infiltration patrols off Singapore, ...
Australian Naval History on 28 July 1966
HMAS Queenborough recommissioned for service as a training ship ...
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1966
Kenneth Douglas Gray, who as pilot of an RAF Lancaster bomber was awarded a DFC in 1943, was promoted to the rank of Captain in the Royal Australian Navy. Acting ...
Australian Naval History on 10 June 1966
HMAS VAMPIRE, (Daring class destroyer), and the Danish ship EMILIE MAERSK, collided in the Bangkok River, Thailand. As damage to the destroyer required dockyard assistance, VAMPIRE set course for Singapore ...
Australian Naval History on 20 May 1966
Over the night of May 20th and into the morning of May 21st HMAS VENDETTA and 723 Squadron scrambled two Iroquois to search for survivors from the Dredge WD Atlas ...
Australian Naval History on 5 May 1966
HMAS Brisbane (II) was launched by the wife of the Minister for the Navy, Mrs Mavis Mary Chaney, in front of a crowd of approximately 5000 people. After receiving a ...
Australian Naval History on 28 April 1966
Sea Venom WZ900 (866) crashed off HMAS MELBOURNE in the Philippine Sea. Arrestor wire parted during carrier landing, aircraft crashed into sea. The accident happened at approx 1500 Hrs. Pilot ...
Australian Naval History on 25 April 1966
HMAS SYDNEY, (fast troop transport), sailed on her fourth voyage to Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 29 March 1966
The New York Times announced that the USN, with the co-operation of the RAN and the RAAF, would carry out an aerial survey of northern Australia, New Guinea and adjacent ...
Australian Naval History on 18 March 1966
The RAN Clearance Diving Teams 1 and 2 were formed. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 March 1966
The Queen’s Commendation was awarded to the following personnel of the RAN’s Clearance Diving Teams for rendering safe, and later destroying, a World War II mine, washed ashore in a ...
Australian Naval History on 13 March 1966
While patrolling off Raffles Light HMAS Hawk came under fire by an Indonesian shore battery, even though she was inside Singaporean territorial waters. Eleven rounds were fired at the ship, ...