HMAS STUART (River class frigate), led a diamond-shaped Fleet Entry into Sydney Harbour to celebrate the bi-centenary of Australia Day. STUART (the second ship to of this name in the ...
Australian Naval History on 26 January 1988
Australian Naval History on 25 January 1988
The sail training ship, YOUNG ENDEAVOUR, was presented to Australia, and commissioned. The 200 ton brigantine was a Bi-centennial gift from the United Kingdom to Australia, and is operated by ...
Australian Naval History on 16 January 1988
An RAN Hydrographic Party under the command of LCDR. D. Bryce, RAN, departed for Antarctica to carry out surveys and update charts on the approaches to Mawson Base. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 January 1988
The Minister for Defence, Mr. Kim Beazley, announced Williamstown Dockyard was to be sold to Australian Marine Engineering Consolidated Ltd., (AMECON). ...
Australian Naval History on 29 December 1987
The Australian and New Zealand Defence Ministers agreed to invite design proposals from Blohm & Voss (Germany) and Royal Schelde (Holland) for a guided missile frigate. ...
Man Overboard! Warramunga Saga
The Birth of the Soviet Fleet, Kronstadt, 1921
Australian Naval History on 11 December 1987
The Minister for Defence announced Williamstown Naval Dockyard, VIC, was to be sold to Australian Marine Engineering Corporation for $100 million. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 November 1987
The first memorial service for the crew lost when HMAS GOORANGAI was sunk in collision with coaster DUNTROON, on 20 November 1940, was held at a memorial erected on the ...
Australian Naval History on 30 October 1987
Principal Chaplain A. W. (Bill) Rosier retired from the RAN after 22 years service. Chaplain Rosier joined the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney as Hospital Chaplain. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 October 1987
A plaque to commemorate Canonbury Hospital at Darling Point, Sydney, was unveiled by Sir Kempson Maddox, senior medical officer of the hospital in WWII. Canonbury was commissioned as a naval ...
Australian Naval History on 14 October 1987
The Minister for Defence, Mr. Kim Beazley, announced a $50 million upgrade for the RAN’s Hydrographic Branch, following the introduction of LADS, (Laser Airborne Depth Sounding). ...
Australian Naval History on 11 October 1987
VADM Sir Alan McNicoll. KBE, CBE, GM, Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau, former Australian Ambassador to Turkey, Chief of the Australian Naval Staff, died in Canberra. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 October 1987
The Bay class mine hunter inshore HMAS SHOALWATER, (LEUT J. R. Griffith, RAN), was commissioned. SHOALWATER was laid down in Carrington Shipyards, Newcastle, New South Wales, and launched on 20 ...
Australian Naval History on 3 October 1987
The eight members of the RAN who lost their lives in the Vietnam War, were honoured with a welcome home parade for all Australian Vietnam veterans, through the streets of ...
Australian Naval History on 24 September 1987
The RAN’s three surviving Bell UH1B Iroquois helicopters flew their farewell flight over Canberra on withdrawal from service. ...
Island Traders – Four and Twenty Dutchmen
HMAS Waterhen – a history
HMAS Swan (Sloop) 1937-38
Perth Survivor story
Australian Naval History on 3 August 1987
Two crewmen from the Oberon class submarine HMAS OTAMA, (LCDR R. Taubman, RAN), lost their lives, in heavy seas off the east coast of Australia, when OTAMA dived while they ...
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1987
As safety and supportability issues caught up with the ageing Wessex’s, National Task duties were transferred to 817 Squadron and 816 Squadron decommissioned ...
Lost Letter Throws New Light on Sydney-Emden Action
Sydney – Emden Action: a short history
IN OCTOBER 1914, Sydney and her sister ship Melbourne detached from the Flagship (Australia) and returned to Australia to form a unit of the escort of the first Anzac convoy ...
HMS Driver – First Paddlewheel Ship to Circumnavigate the World
HMS DRIVER, a 180 foot paddlewheel sloop, was the first steam vessel to circumnavigate the world. The voyage took five years and commenced from Portsmouth in 1842. Her record, despite ...