Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Issue 6 of Semaphore, the publication produced by The Sea Power Centre Australia in March 2006. We are indebted to them for their ...
HMAS Fantome
HMAS Fantome 1901 – 1956
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS of ‘gunboat diplomacy’, the Royal Navy maintained a large number of sloops designed for overseas service, powered by both steam and sail. By the turn ...
Australian Naval History on 14 January 1919
HMAS FANTOME, (survey ship), resumed survey duties after WW1. ...
Australian Naval History on 6 October 1918
The sloop HMAS FANTOME, (CAPT J. F. Robins, RN), was dispatched to Malaita on a punitive expedition. A force of 65 officers and ratings from FANTOME joined French settlers and ...
Australian Naval History on 10 November 1916
HMAS FANTOME, (sloop), intercepted a Chinese junk in the Nicobar Islands. The vessel was later released when it was found the junk was not a contraband runner. ...
Australian Naval History on 27 July 1915
The sloop HMAS FANTOME, (LCDR L. T. Jones, RN), was commissioned. FANTOME was launched for the RN at Sheerness, England, in March 1901. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 September 1914
The cruiser HMS PSYCHE, (later HMAS PSYCHE), and survey ship HMS FANTOME, (later HMAS FANTOME), joined the contraband patrol in the Bay of Bengal. ...