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HMAS Ballarat II

Occasional Paper 73: Ballarat or Ballaarat? Badges and Flags: Divisive or Not?

Editorial Staff · Mar 30, 2020 ·

March 2020 This paper is based on a 2017 Royal Australian Navy FaceBook post and correspondence with the well known Vexillographer and Society member, John Christian Vaughan.  John has provided ...

The Sea Swapping Captain

Editorial Staff · Dec 16, 2011 ·

The Commanding Officer of HMAS Stuart, Commander Brett Sonter, RAN, kindly agreed to be interviewed by our Editor and in this article he answers a series of questions which creates ...

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The Dubai Princess and the Pirates

Periodical, Semaphore · Dec 21, 2009 ·

This article originally appeared in the August, 2009 edition of  SEMAPHORE, published by the Seapower Centre of Australia. On 29 May 2009 the Australian Government announced a decision to flexibly ...

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Australian Naval History on 17 May 2009

On This Day · May 17, 2009 ·

Whilst transiting the ‘Internationally Recognised Transit Corridor’ in the Gulf of Aden, HMA Ships Sydney IV and Ballarat II came to the assistance of a merchant vessel, MV Dubai Princess, ...

Australian Naval History on 14 March 2006

On This Day · Mar 14, 2006 ·

The ANZAC class guided missile frigate HMAS BALLARAT, (CMDR M. K. M. Wise, OAM, RAN), departed Australia to relieve HMAS PARRAMATTA, (ANZAC class guided missile frigate), in the Persian Gulf, ...

Australian Naval History on 22 January 2005

On This Day · Jan 22, 2005 ·

The Anzac class frigate, HMAS BALLARAT, (CMDR S. Hunter, CSC, RAN), ran aground at Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, while conducting Operation Reflex border protection patrols. BALLARAT was able to ...

Australian Naval History on 26 June 2004

On This Day · Jun 26, 2004 ·

The ANZAC class guided missile frigate, HMAS BALLARAT, (CMDR D. J. Hunter, CSC, RAN), was commissioned. BALLARAT was laid down in Tenix Williamstown Dockyard, VIC, and launched on 22 May ...

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