With his death an historic link with the beginning of the RAN has been severed as Rear Admiral H.A. Showers, CBE was the last survivor of the first entry of ...
HMAS J3
Australian Naval History on 12 July 1922
HMAS PLATYPUS was paid off as a submarine depot ship, and re-commissioned as a destroyer depot ship. After uneventful service, little of which was spent at sea, the six J ...