On February 28, 1914, Australia’s first submarines were commissioned at Portsmouth, England. They were AE1 and AE2, boats which for very different reasons would become an important part of Australia’s ...
HMAS Oxley II
The End of the Line
One visitor to the Port of Fremantle in Western Australia which went virtually unnoticed was the former Royal Australian Navy destroyer escort PARRAMATTA. Towed by the diminutive tug WOOREE, the PARRAMATTA ...
Australian Naval History on 9 March 1992
The de-commissioned submarine HMAS OXLEY was towed from HMAS STIRLING to Jervoise Bay for breaking up. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 February 1992
HMAS OXLEY, the first Oberon class submarine built for the RAN, paid off at HMAS STIRLING, WA. The stripped hull was sold for scrap. ...
75th Anniversary of landings at Gallipoli
HMA Ships Sydney and Tobruk and HMAS/M Oxley represented the Royal Australian Navy as part of the International Fleet assembled for the Anniversary of the Landings at Gallipoli on 25th ...
Australian Naval History on 6 May 1990
Thirty three members of the crew of HMAS OXLEY, (submarine), were given a private audience by Pope John Paul II. It was the first occasion any Australian warship was so ...
Australian Naval History on 27 April 1990
HMAS OXLEY, (submarine), sailed through the Dardanelles to the Sea of Marmora, thus emulating the Australian submarine AE2, which had undertaken the same action some 75 years before. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 April 1990
Three RAN vessels, (HMA Ships SYDNEY, TOBRUK and OXLEY), represented the RAN at the 75th Anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli. SYDNEY was chosen as her namesake had escorted the ...
Australian Naval History on 11 August 1967
HMAS OXLEY, (Oberon class submarine), the first of eight to be built in Greenock, Scotland for the RAN, arrived in Brisbane. ...
Australian Naval History on 27 March 1967
The Oberon class submarine HMAS OXLEY, (LCDR D. H. Lorrimer, RAN), was commissioned. OXLEY was laid down at Scott’s Yard, Greenock, Scotland, on 2 July 1964, and launched on 24 ...