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You are here: Home / Naval Heritage Sites / Garden Island NSW

Garden Island NSW

· Aug 9, 2017 ·

Click on a date bar for more details of the period

1788 – 1856

Bar-ing-hoe - a fishing place

Garden Island

The oldest graffiti

Walter Bradley

Australia Station

1857 – 1899

First Navy Buildings

Forward Plans

The Rigging House

1900 – 1939

The Naval Chapel

Royal Assent

World War I

1940 – today

Kuttabul Sunk

Kuttabul Sunk

Coffer Dams

Northern Hill

View the garden Island timeline

Development of this timeline over many years is the work of Society volunteer, David Stockman. Suggested additions or changes are welcome.  Please send them to secretary@navyhistory.org.au.

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Additional reading for Garden Island

  • Throwing a Party: The Naval Ball of 1899
  • A Tribute to Norman Rivett
  • Trouble with the Neighbours
  • The HMAS Parramatta Memorials
  • Kings Cross in World War II
  • Occasional Paper 70: The Ship’s Garden – GARDEN ISLAND
  • Occasional Paper 69: The Naval Garden on Garden Island, Sydney
  • Harry’s Café de Wheels
  • Letter: Villers Bretonneux Museum - Garden Island Dockyard crest
  • Garden Island Rangefinding
  • Ready to Serve
  • Naval Fuel Oil
  • Weather Signals
  • Our First Gardeners
  • Letter: The Hammerhead Lives
  • Peter Hibbs Remembered
  • Tales from the Dockyard - Lawrence Beare Westaway
  • Letter: The Hammerhead Crane
  • HMS Penguin (VII) and her 64 Pounder Gun
  • The Hammerhead Crane
  • Memories of a Garden Island Patternmaker
  • General Managers of Garden Island Dockyard
  • Garden Island and Cruise Ships
  • Letter: Garden Island Chapel
  • Tales from the Dockyard: The Silver Docket
  • Tales from the Dockyard: Dan Craig's Medal
  • Tales from the Dockyard: ‘Ingenuity Rules’
  • Periscope Repair - Defects by Fin, Friend, and Feather
  • Edward Albert Amphlett - Paymaster RN
  • Portuguese Carronades - 16th Century Explorers to Australia?
  • Garden Island - The Barracks Building
  • History of the "Consuela" Figurehead at Garden Island
  • Garden Island Rock Carvings - The Forgotten Men
  • FFG5 Builds in Two Dockyards 600 Miles Apart
  • The Chequered Career of HMAS Penguin
  • Garden Island Dockyard 1943-46
  • The RAN in Antarctic Waters
  • The Tower Building at Garden Island
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World & National Heritage Sites

  • Cockatoo Island
  • HMAS Sydney II and the HSK Kormoran Shipwreck Sites
  • HMVS Cerberus

Commonwealth Heritage Sites

  • Chowder Bay Naval Facilities
  • Royal Australian Naval Transmitting Station ACT
  • Royal Australian Naval College ACT
  • Garden Island WA
  • Naval Offices QLD
  • HMAS Cerberus
  • Admiralty House, Garden and Fortifications
  • Beecroft Peninsula NSW
  • Spectacle Island Explosives Complex NSW
  • HMAS Penguin
  • HMAS Watson

The NHSA acknowledges support provided by the Australian Department of Environment and Energy which made these pages possible.
Greater detail on building history, the natural and Indigenous significance to these sites is available by accessing the National Heritage List.

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