Former HMAS Colac ceased service as a tank cleaning vessel. After nine years in Reserve, Colac had been taken in hand in 1962 for conversion to a tank cleaning vessel. ...
Australian Units
The Loss of HMAS Armidale
Australian Naval History on 27 August 1983
The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS GAWLER, was commissioned at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 August 1983
In a small ceremony conducted in the small boats harbour at HMAS Stirling HMAS Adroit was turned over to the Commanding Officer of the Fremantle Port Division Commander Don Bantock, ...
Australian Naval History on 2 August 1983
HMAS GAWLER, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 July 1983
HMAS GAWLER, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned at Cairns, QLD. ...
The J Class Submarines
Letters – Cradle of the RAN
Williamstown may have been the cradle of the Victorian Naval Forces and the Commonwealth Naval Forces, but there seems little doubt that from the inception of Australia’s own Naval Forces ...
HMAS Australia – Visit to Gallipoli – 1936
During the Abyssinian crisis in 1936, H.M.A.S. Australia and Sydney were serving with the Mediterranean Fleet, the former having been on exchange with H.M.S. Sussex and the latter was temporarily serving ...
Obituary: Harry Adlam
HAROLD CHARLES (HARRY) ADLAM grew up in Penshurst, Sydney. Economics dictated that he leave school at the age of 14. However, he educated himself and ended up with a better ...