by Lyn O’Grady Having been requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy to act as an examination vessel at the entrance to Sydney Harbour from 1940, HMAS Falie began a new ...
HMAS Falie
Australian Naval History on 4 June 1945
The stores carrier HMAS FALIE, (LCDR C. V. Wood, RANVR), departed Madang under the tow of the tug TANCRED. On 8 June TANCRED caught fire and was in danger of ...
Australian Naval History on 17 July 1940
HMAS FALIE, (transport and stores ship), was commissioned. The cruiser HMAS SYDNEY, (CAPT J. A. Collins, RAN), returned from the fleet action in the central Mediterranean to Alexandria, was immediately ...