Some 16 years ago, in the first or second issue of the ‘Naval Historical Review’, there appeared the first part of a two-part story on the history of Williamstown Naval ...
HMAS Labuan I
The RAN in Antarctic Waters
Australian Naval History on 9 November 1955
HMAS Lae was sold for scrapping after being in reserve since 1948. Lae and the former HMAS Labuan left Sydney under tow for Hong Kong on 28 October 1956 carrying ...
Australian Naval History on 28 September 1951
The frigate HMAS MURCHISON, (LCDR A. N. Dollard, RAN), penetrated the Han River, Korea, and came under heavy Communist gunfire. MURCHISON withdrew after suffering light damage. HMAS Labuan paid off ...
Australian Naval History on 1 March 1951
HMAS LABUAN, (tank landing ship), arrived at Fremantle from Antarctica. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 February 1949
HMAS LABUAN, (landing ship tank), arrived back at Melbourne after a voyage to Antarctica supplying Australian bases. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 January 1949
The landing ship, tank, HMAS LABUAN, (LCDR G. M. Dixon, RAN), sailed from Melbourne for Heard and Kerguelen islands in the Antarctic. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 December 1948
The aircraft carrier HMAS SYDNEY, (CAPT R. R. Dowling, DSO, RAN), was commissioned. As HMS TERRIBLE she was laid down in Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, England, on 19 April 1943, and ...
Australian Naval History on 31 October 1947
LST 3501, (renamed HMAS LABUAN on 16 December, 1948), LCDR G. M. Dixon, RANVR, in command, sailed from Sydney on the first of seven voyages to Antarctica. ...