No member of the Royal Australian Navy who served in wartime could show as much appreciation of their captain as did the crew, officers and ratings of the three Amphion ...
HMAS Brisbane I
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 2
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 1
THE HISTORY OF WORLD naval aviation began, tentatively, in the lighter-than-air era. As far back as November 1861, during the American Civil War, the Union Army – employing maritime techniques – released the Washington balloon from a remodelled coal barge, the G.W. Parke Curtis, to observe the enemy at Budd’s Ferry. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 August 1940
HMAS BATHURST, (minesweeper), the first of 60 of the class to be built in Australia, was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. The RAN Depot at Fremantle was commissioned as HMAS ...
Australian Naval History on 24 September 1935
The modified Leander class cruiser HMAS SYDNEY, (CAPT J. U. C. Fitzgerald, RN), was commissioned at Portsmouth . SYDNEY was laid down in Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Yard, Wallsend-on-Tyne, ...
Australian Naval History on 16 July 1935
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and BRISBANE, (cruisers), represented the RAN at the Jubilee Review of HRH King George V, at Spithead, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 June 1935
HMAS BRISBANE, (cruiser), was ordered to assist HMS HASTINGS, (sloop), which ran aground on Shab Kutle Reef in the Red Sea. The cruiser stood by the stranded ship for a ...
Australian Naval History on 2 March 1935
HMAS Brisbane was recommissioned at Sydney under the command of Captain Charles Farquhar-Smith, RAN in preparation for a trip to the UK with the crew for the new HMAS Sydney ...
Australian Naval History on 3 September 1933
The RAN naval depot in Brisbane, was commissioned as HMAS PENGUIN IV. It was re-commissioned as HMAS BRISBANE in 1940, before becoming HMAS MORETON in 1942. The base was decommissioned ...
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 18 July 1925
While HMAS Brisbane was at Hong Kong, there was a major landslide in the Po Hing Fong district which destroyed many homes and killed 73 people. Warrant Officer Shipwright Robert ...
Australian Naval History on 26 June 1925
HMAS BRISBANE, (cruiser), was attached to the RN’s China Squadron. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 April 1919
HMAS Brisbane sailed from Portsmouth for Australia via Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, Singapore and Darwin. She later joined submarine HMAS J5, already on her way to Australia, and assumed ...
Australian Naval History on 11 December 1918
HMAS BRISBANE, (light cruiser), arrived at Sevastopol to support White Russian forces in resisting the advance of the Bolshevik army. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 December 1918
HMAS BRISBANE, (light cruiser), operated with the Australian Destroyer Flotilla in the Black Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 October 1918
HMAS Brisbane departed Sydney for England and was at sea en route from Colombo to Aden when the Armistice of 11 November 1918 ended hostilities in World War I. HMAS ...
Australian Naval History on 3 October 1917
The Australian Government offered HMAS BRISBANE, (cruiser), to the Imperial Government for service overseas. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 April 1917
A Sopwith Baby seaplane was embarked in HMAS BRISBANE, (cruiser), at Colombo, to hunt down the German raider WOLF. BRISBANE was the first ship of the RAN to carry an ...
Australian Naval History on 13 December 1916
HMAS Brisbane departed Sydney for war service in the Mediterranean, arriving at Malta on 4 February 1917 ...
Australian Naval History on 31 October 1916
HMAS BRISBANE, the first cruiser to be built in Australia, was commissioned at Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 October 1916
The Town class light cruiser HMAS BRISBANE, (CAPT C. L. Cumberlegge, RN), was commissioned. BRISBANE was laid down in Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, on 25 January 1913, and launched on ...
Australian Naval History on 16 October 1916
Saboteurs cut all electrical connections in HMAS BRISBANE, (cruiser), fitting out at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1915
HMAS BRISBANE, the first cruiser to be built in Australia, was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 July 1912
HMAS ENCOUNTER, (CAPT B. M. Chambers, RN), was commissioned into the RN. As HMS ENCOUNTER she was was laid down in Devonport Dockyard on 28 January 1901, launched on 18 ...