HMAS JERVIS BAY, (training ship), rescued 12 Korean fishermen from a raft in the Cook Strait, (New Zealand).Their vessel, the DONG CHANG, with a crew of 15, sank in heavy ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 26 January 1988
HMAS STUART (River class frigate), led a diamond-shaped Fleet Entry into Sydney Harbour to celebrate the bi-centenary of Australia Day. STUART (the second ship to of this name in the ...
Man Overboard! Warramunga Saga
Australian Naval History on 22 November 1987
The first memorial service for the crew lost when HMAS GOORANGAI was sunk in collision with coaster DUNTROON, on 20 November 1940, was held at a memorial erected on the ...
Australian Naval History on 10 October 1987
The Bay class mine hunter inshore HMAS SHOALWATER, (LEUT J. R. Griffith, RAN), was commissioned. SHOALWATER was laid down in Carrington Shipyards, Newcastle, New South Wales, and launched on 20 ...
HMAS Waterhen – a history
HMAS Swan (Sloop) 1937-38
Perth Survivor story
Australian Naval History on 3 August 1987
Two crewmen from the Oberon class submarine HMAS OTAMA, (LCDR R. Taubman, RAN), lost their lives, in heavy seas off the east coast of Australia, when OTAMA dived while they ...
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1987
As safety and supportability issues caught up with the ageing Wessex’s, National Task duties were transferred to 817 Squadron and 816 Squadron decommissioned ...