During Operation DESERT STORM HMA Ships Sydney and Brisbane formed part of the air defence screen around Battle Force Zulu, in the Arabian Gulf, which included up to three USN ...
HMAS Sydney IV
Australian Naval History on 12 November 1990
HMA Ships BRISBANE, (guided missile destroyer), and SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), sailed from Sydney to relieve HMA Ships ADELAIDE and DARWIN, (guided missile frigates), in the multi-national naval force in ...
Australian Naval History on 7 August 1990
HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), passed through the Panama Canal to San Diego. She was the first RAN ship to transit the canal in 15 years. ...
Australian Naval History on 5 July 1990
HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), made a four day visit to Stockholm. She was the first ship of the RAN to visit a Swedish port. ...
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 4 May 1990
HMAS SYDNEY, (frigate), visited the French port of Toulon while on her circumnavigation of the world, following the commemoration services at Gallipoli in April. She was the first ship of ...
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 28 March 1990
HMAS WESTRALIA, (oil replenishment ship), conducted her first dual replenishment at sea, with HMA Ships TOBRUK, (landing ship heavy), and SYDNEY, (guided missile destroyer). ...
Australian Naval History on 23 September 1989
HMAS SUCCESS, (auxiliary oiler replenishment), and HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), recovered 14 bodies from the sea, near the island of Palawan, while conducting a transit of the South China ...
Australian Naval History on 16 May 1987
HMA Ships ADELAIDE and SYDNEY, (guided missile frigates), were placed on standby to assist with the potential evacuation of Australian nationals from Fiji, following a military coup. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 January 1986
HMA Ships HOBART, SYDNEY, PARRAMATTA, DERWENT, and VAMPIRE, and aircraft of No.817 Squadron were dispatched to search for an F111 bomber which crashed into the sea off Bateman’s Bay, NSW. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 October 1985
Service in HMA Ships SYDNEY, JEPARIT, and BOONAROO, (troop supply ships), was accepted as ‘war service’ in the Vietnam War, under the terms of the Repatriation Act. ...
Australian Naval History on 29 January 1983
LEUT G. A. Ledger, RAN, piloted an Iroquois helicopter in a hazardous night operation to rescue 13 passengers trapped in four cable cars over Keppel Harbour in Singapore, during a ...
Australian Naval History on 25 January 1982
HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), was severely damaged in a $4 million fire while fitting out at Seattle, USA. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 January 1980
The keel for HMAS SYDNEY, the third guided missile frigate ordered from the USA, was laid at Seattle, USA. ...