HMAS CERBERUS, (former HMC turret ship), was moved to Corio Bay, VIC, and was re-commissioned as HMAS PLATYPUS II, (submarine tender). ...
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Australian Naval History on 21 January 1921
HMAS Melbourne was involved in the dramatic rescue of 18 people from the sinking US registered schooner Helen B Sterling. The Helen B Sterling had departed Newcastle in early January ...
Australian Naval History on 4 January 1921
The following ships were laid up in reserve in Sydney: HMA Ships ENCOUNTER, (cruiser), PARRAMATTA, YARRA, WARREGO, HUON, SWAN, and TORRENS, (destroyers), and MALLOW, (sloop). ...
Australian Naval History on 10 November 1920
HMS Verdun (destroyer) transported the body of the Unknown Warrior from France to England. Correction: November 2014 – This entry previously said that HMS Vendetta (later HMAS Vendetta) transported the ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1920
HMAS Encounter paid off into reserve . She was assigned to the naval base at Garden Island as a depot ship in May 1923, and was renamed HMAS Penguin ...
Australian Naval History on 1 September 1920
Flinders Naval Depot was commissioned as a training establishment for the RAN. It was officially renamed HMAS CERBERUS in December 1962. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 July 1920
HMAS Torrens was paid off into reserve. The destroyer was relocated to Flinders Naval Depot in July 1924, and although not recommissioned, was used for the training of naval reservists. ...
Australian Naval History on 5 July 1920
The fleet collier HMAS BILOELA, was commissioned. BILOELA was laid down in Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, 21 October 1918, and launched on 10 April 1919. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 February 1920
Navy Order 27 introduced an Australian code of discipline to the RAN. The order was issued as a consequence of the inquiry into a mutiny in HMAS AUSTRALIA in 1919. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 February 1920
HMAS SLEUTH, (patrol vessel), was sold out of service and renamed AURORA. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 January 1920
The S class destroyer, HMAS TASMANIA, (LCDR H. O. Joyce, RN), was commissioned. TASMANIA was laid down in William Breadmore Yard, UK, on 23 November 1918. ...
Australian Naval History on 27 January 1920
The Marksman class destroyer, (flotilla leader), HMAS ANZAC, (CMDR S. H. Simpson, RN), was commissioned. ANZAC was laid down in Denny Bros. Yard, UK, on 11 January 1917. In 1919 ...
Australian Naval History on 20 December 1919
After an exchange of messages between the Australian Government and the British Admiralty, it was announced that the balance of the sentences, handed down as a result of the mutiny ...
Australian Naval History on 10 December 1919
HMAS SYDNEY, (light cruiser), patrolled the Timor Sea as beacon ship for Ross and Keith Smith’s flight from England to Australia. The aviators recorded the cruiser was sighted exactly on ...
Australian Naval History on 5 December 1919
HMAS Encounter permanently transferred from the RN to the RAN ...
Australian Naval History on 6 November 1919
RADM P. E. F. P. Grant, First Naval Member, tendered his resignation. His resignation was in protest to the Australian Government demanding the Admiralty release five sailors gaoled for participation ...
Australian Naval History on 8 September 1919
HM Ships MARGUERITE, GERANIUM, and MALLOW, (sloops), swept for wartime mines off Cape Everard, VIC. One mine was swept and destroyed ...
Australian Naval History on 22 July 1919
The River class torpedo boat destroyer, HMAS Parramatta (I) decommissioned in Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 July 1919
HMAS Sydney arrived in Sydney after sailing from Portsmouth on 9 April 1919 for the return passage to Australia calling at Gibaltar, Malta, Port Said, Port Suez, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, ...
Australian Naval History on 23 June 1919
HMAS SUVA, (special service vessel), was commissioned for the visit of Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Jellicoe, to the Australia Station and Pacific Islands. The ship was paid off on ...
Australian Naval History on 19 June 1919
CAPT H. P. Cayley, RN, led a landing party from HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), to put down a civil disturbance in Penang. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 June 1919
HM Ships GERANIUM, MARGUERITE, and MALLOW, (sloops), arrived in Australia to sweep for mines. They were later gifted to Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 June 1919
HM destroyers Voyager (later HMAS) and Vivacious attacked the Russian Bolshevik destroyers Azard and Gavril at the entrance to Petrograd Bay. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 June 1919
The ‘HMAS AUSTRALIA Mutiny’ occurred on the battle-cruiser while berthed at Fremantle. AUSTRALIA had returned to Fremantle on 28 May, after an absence of over four and half years from ...
Australian Naval History on 28 May 1919
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), arrived in Fremantle, WA, from Portsmouth, England. ...