HMAS Yarra was transferred to the control of Cockatoo Island Dockyard where she was stripped of all useful fittings. Her hulk was scuttled off Sydney Heads on Thursday 11 June ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1929
Australian Naval History on 24 September 1929
The London, (County), class cruiser HMAS SHROPSHIRE, (CAPT R. W. Oldham, RN), was commissioned. SHROPSHIRE was laid down in Wm Beardmore & Co Ltd, Dalmuir, Scotland, on 24 February 1926, ...
Australian Naval History on 21 September 1929
HMAS CANBERRA, (cruiser), ran aground at Broome, WA . Damage was minor, and the cruiser re-floated herself. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 September 1929
HMAS WARREGO, (torpedo boat destroyer), arrived at Cockatoo Island, Sydney, for breaking up. The vessel sank alongside her wharf, and was finally broken up by explosives during WWII. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 August 1929
HMAS Penquin (formerly HMAS Platypus) commissioned to serve as a Depot Ship at Garden Island, acting also as parent ship for the submarines ...
Australian Naval History on 15 August 1929
HMAS Platypus paid off and the following day commissioned as HMAS Penguin as a Depot Ship at Garden Island, acting also as parent ship for the submarines HMAS Encounter decommissioned ...
Australian Naval History on 23 July 1929
HMA Ships MARGUERITE and MALLOW were paid off at Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 July 1929
HMAS ALBATROSS, (seaplane carrier), sailed from Sydney with the Governor General Lord Stonehaven and Lady Stonehaven, for an official visit to New Guinea. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 May 1929
RADM E. R .G .R. Evans, CB, RN, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding His Majesty’s Australian Squadron. Evans was a charismatic officer who had served with CAPT Robert Falcon Scott, ...
Australian Naval History on 11 April 1929
HMAS ALBATROSS, (seaplane carrier), was dispatched from Sydney to search for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s aircraft, the Southern Cross, in the vicinity of Wyndham WA. The Southern Cross had been ...
Australian Naval History on 31 March 1929
HMAS Platypus paid off to recommission in her former role as a Submarine Tender after 2 Royal Navy O Class submarines joined the RAN ...
Australian Naval History on 25 February 1929
Six Seagull Mk III amphibian aircraft embarked in seaplane carrier HMAS ALBATROSS at Melbourne. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 February 1929
HMAS Brisbane decommissioned again on 22 January 1929 and then on 16 August 1929 Brisbane was placed in C-Class Reserve and then finally on 1 December 1930 she paid off ...
Australian Naval History on 19 February 1929
LEUT Norman H. Shaw became the youngest officer to command a RAN submarine. Shaw was 28 Years and 228 days old when he took command of HMAS Otway ...
Australian Naval History on 23 January 1929
The seaplane carrier HMAS ALBATROSS, (CAPT D. M. T. Bedford, RN), was commissioned at Sydney. Lady Stonehaven, (Wife of the Governor General), performed the commissioning ceremony. ALBATROSS was laid down ...
Australian Naval History on 16 November 1928
LEUT Frank E. Getting assumed command of HMAS Oxley to become the first RANC Graduate to command an RAN warship ...
Australian Naval History on 1 September 1928
A proposal to transfer the main base of the RAN from Sydney to Port Stephens, NSW, was laid before the Australian Government. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 August 1928
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), sailed from Portsmouth on her maiden voyage to Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 July 1928
The County class heavy cruiser HMAS CANBERRA, (CAPT G. L. Massey, RN), was commissioned. CANBERRA was laid down in John Brown Yard, Clydebank, Scotland, in 1925, and launched on 31 ...
Australian Naval History on 9 June 1928
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith, in his aircraft Southern Cross, completed the first trans-Pacific flight The aircraft was guided in the last leg of it’s history making flight by the RAN’s ...
Australian Naval History on 7 June 1928
HMAS Huon paid off into Reserve at Sydney. Without being again brought back into service, Huon was sunk by gunfire as a target off Sydney on 10 April 1931. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 May 1928
HMAS Swan paid off for disposal at Sydney and was stripped of useful fittings and equipment, in 1930, at Cockatoo Dockyard and her hulk towed to the Hawkesbury River. Swan ...
Australian Naval History on 8 May 1928
HMAS Sydney, cruiser, was paid off for breaking up at Sydney and on 10 January 1929 was delivered to Cockatoo Island for breaking up ...
Australian Naval History on 24 April 1928
The County class cruiser HMAS AUSTRALIA, (CAPT F. W. H. Goolden, RN), was commissioned. AUSTRALIA was laid down in John Brown Yard, Clydebank, Scotland, on 9 June 1925, and launched ...
Australian Naval History on 23 April 1928
HMAS MELBOURNE decommissioned at Portsmouth. In December 1928 the ship was sold to Alloa Shipbuilding Co, Rosyth, Scotland, for £25,000. She was broken up in 1929. ...