A colleague from the United Kingdom conducting research into wartime submarine losses recently contacted the Society seeking information on the Australia- born captain of HMS Tempest which was lost in ...
HMAS Oxley I
First to Command!
Commander Norman Hamon Shaw OBE, RAN The first graduate of the RANC to command a warship By Commander Tony Vine, RANR Norman Shaw was born in Perth Western Australia on ...
The Loss of HMS Oxley 1939
Captain Frank Edmund Getting, RAN – 1899-1942
Australia’s Submarine History – AE1 & AE2 To Collins
Australian Naval History on 10 September 1939
HMS OXLEY, (submarine, ex-HMAS OXLEY), was sunk in error by HMS TRITON, (submarine). The Commanding Officer, and one rating, survived the sinking. OXLEY was the first British submarine lost in ...
Australian Naval History on 16 November 1928
LEUT Frank E. Getting assumed command of HMAS Oxley to become the first RANC Graduate to command an RAN warship ...
Australian Naval History on 1 April 1927
The O class submarine HMAS OXLEY, (CMDR H. R. Marrack, RN), was commissioned. OXLEY was laid down at Vickers Ltd, Barrow in Furness, UK, in 1925, and launched on 29 ...
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1926
HMAS OXLEY, (submarine), was launched at Vickers Armstrong, England. ...