CMDR J. Bond, RAN, of HMAS SWAN, (destroyer), led a party of Australian and French officers to Novocherkassk to meet General Krasnoff, Commander of White Russian troops in South Russia. ...
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Australian Naval History on 3 December 1918
HMAS SWAN, and the French Ship BISSON, (destroyers), entered the Sea of Azov to observe the state of White Russians in the area. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 November 1918
HMAS PARRAMATTA, (torpedo boat destroyer), entered the Black Sea. PARRAMATTA was employed as a dispatch boat between Sevastopol and Constantinople. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 November 1918
HMA Ships AUSTRALIA, (battle cruiser), SYDNEY, and MELBOURNE, (cruisers), were present at the surrender of the German Fleet in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. AUSTRALIA led the Port Division of ...
Australian Naval History on 17 November 1918
HMAS PARRAMATTA, (torpedo boat destroyer), received on board two released POWs taken when HMAS AE2, (submarine), was sunk in the Sea of Marmara. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 November 1918
HMAS PARRAMATTA, (torpedo boat destroyer), stood off the Sultan’s Palace at Constantinople, as a unit of the British and French Fleet occupying the Turkish capital. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 November 1918
Germany signed the Armistice to end WWI. The RAN lost the submarines AE1 and AE2 during the war. Over 240 RAN personnel lost their lives during the war, both within ...
Australian Naval History on 30 October 1918
HMAS HUON, (torpedo boat destroyer), landed Allied peace delegates at the Turkish port of Smyrna. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 October 1918
HMA Ships PARRAMATTA, YARRA, and TORRENS, (torpedo boat destroyers), provided cover for the landing of Allied troops at Dedeagach, in the Dardanelles. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 October 1918
HMAS SWAN, (torpedo boat destroyer), rescued the crew of an aircraft which had force-landed in the Mediterranean. The aircraft had been operating with a Japanese destroyer flotilla escorting a convoy ...
Australian Naval History on 23 October 1918
HMS STALWART, (destroyer), later HMAS STALWART, was launched at Swan Hunter’s, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 October 1918
HMAS Brisbane departed Sydney for England and was at sea en route from Colombo to Aden when the Armistice of 11 November 1918 ended hostilities in World War I. HMAS ...
Australian Naval History on 6 October 1918
The sloop HMAS FANTOME, (CAPT J. F. Robins, RN), was dispatched to Malaita on a punitive expedition. A force of 65 officers and ratings from FANTOME joined French settlers and ...
Australian Naval History on 2 October 1918
HMA Ships SWAN and WARREGO, (torpedo boat destroyers), provided escorts for British light cruisers, and participated in the bombardment of the Austrian naval base at Durazzo, Albania. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 September 1918
HMAS MELBOURNE, (cruiser), patrolled the Norwegian coast for German surface vessels. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 August 1918
HMAS Gayundah finally paid off in Melbourne. Sold in 1921 to Brisbane Gravel Pty Ltd, she returned to Queensland and began a long and useful career as a sand and ...
Australian Naval History on 8 August 1918
HMA Ships HUON and YARRA, (torpedo boat destroyers), collided in the Adriatic. HUON was severely damaged, and was withdrawn from further war service. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 August 1918
On 03/08/1918 HMAT Warilda was transporting wounded soldiers from Le Havre, France to Southampton when she was torpedoed by the German submarine UC-49. This was despite being marked clearly with ...
Australian Naval History on 27 July 1918
HMAS ADELAIDE, (cruiser), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 July 1918
The patrol vessel HMAS GANNET, was commissioned. GANNET, (as PENGUIN), was an examination vessel in WWI, and was requisitioned for the RAN in June 1918. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 July 1918
HMAT Barunga was on its way to Australia with 800 sick and wounded on board and was torpedoed at 4.30 pm on 15 July 1918. Destroyers which had been some ...
Australian Naval History on 2 July 1918
The first dentist appointed to the RAN, LEUT M. L. Atwill, joined HMAS AUDSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), in England. Surgeon LCDR(D) D. Austin, was later appointed Senior Dental Officer, RAN, at HMAS ...
Australian Naval History on 29 June 1918
HMS SUCCESS, (destroyer), was laid down at Doxford’s Yard, Sunderland, England. She was launched on 27 January 1920, and shortly afterwards was among a number of vessels gifted to the ...
Australian Naval History on 1 June 1918
HMA Ships SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, were on patrol in the Heligoland Bight with British warships, (as part of the Harwich Force), searching for German minesweepers and destroyers, when they came ...
Australian Naval History on 23 May 1918
HMAS MOURILYAN, (patrol vessel), was commissioned. ...