IN THE BEGINNING there was COAL!! Lots of it. Dirty, dusty, nostril filling and seemingly unlimited in supply. Coaling Ship was an evolution in which everybody was engaged in the ...
HMAS Tide Austral
Australian Naval History on 7 September 1962
HMAS Tide Austral was renamed HMAS Supply. The name Supply was selected to commemorate the ship of the same name that accompanied the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788. The ...
Australian Naval History on 15 August 1962
HMAS Tide Austral commissioned at Southampton. She was built for the RAN but loaned to the UK and served as RFA Tide Australia from completion in 1955 to 1962 when ...
Australian Naval History on 1 September 1954
HMAS TIDE AUSTRAL, later renamed SUPPLY, was launched at Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...