A $3.9 billion contract to build six Kockum Type 471 submarines for the RAN, (later designated Collins class), was awarded by the Australian Government to the Australian Submarine Corporation, Adelaide. ...
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Australian Naval History on 16 May 1987
HMA Ships ADELAIDE and SYDNEY, (guided missile frigates), were placed on standby to assist with the potential evacuation of Australian nationals from Fiji, following a military coup. ...
Australian Naval History on 5 April 1987
An RAN survey team led by LCDR. D. Bryce, RAN, returned from the Australian Antarctic Territory with data which enabled charts held by the Hydrographic Branch to be corrected and ...
Australian Naval History on 4 March 1987
HMAS OVENS, (Oberon class submarine), sank the stripped hulk of the navy tank cleaning vessel, ex-HMAS COLAC, off Sydney, with a Mk.48 torpedo. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 February 1987
The Minister for Defence, Mr. Kim Beazley, announced the Government plan for a two ocean navy. Half of the RAN would ultimately be based at HMAS STIRLING, WA. ...
Australian Naval History on 6 January 1987
RADM Peter Sinclair relieved RADM Ian Knox as RAN Fleet Commander. ...
Australian Naval History on 5 December 1986
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, approved the posthumous award of the Australian Bravery Medal to AB. Michael George Oliver, RAN for bravery during a gas alarm in HMAS STALWART, on ...
Australian Naval History on 1 December 1986
The Bay class mine hunter HMAS RUSHCUTTER, (LCDR G. Mapson, RAN), was commissioned. RUSHCUTTER was laid down in Carrington Shipyards, Newcastle, NSW, and launched on 3 May 1986. Lady Bennet, ...
Australian Naval History on 23 November 1986
The memorial to HMAS PARRAMATTA, (sloop),which was sunk in 1941, was relocated to the Queens Wharf Reserve in Parramatta. The original memorial had been set up in June 1973 at ...
Australian Naval History on 11 November 1986
The Shore Establishment HMAS LEEUWIN, (Fremantle, WA), was decommissioned. The base had begun life as a drill hall in Croke Lane, Fremantle, in 1926, and was commissioned on 1 August ...