HMS GERANIUM, (later HMAS GERANIUM, survey vessel), was launched at Greenock, Scotland. ...
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Australian Naval History on 27 October 1915
HMAS MELBOURNE, (cruiser), intercepted the steamer HAMBORN, off New York. A boarding party was put aboard and LEUT H. V. Creer, RAN, steamed the vessel to Halifax, Nova Scotia. HAMBORN, ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1915
HMAS BRISBANE, the first cruiser to be built in Australia, was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 September 1915
The tender, (steam yacht), HMAS FRANKLIN, was commissioned. FRANKLIN, (as ADELE), was laid down in Hawthorn & Co, Leith, Scotland, in 1906. She was purchased for the RAN from her ...
Australian Naval History on 9 September 1915
HMS J5, (submarine), later HMAS J5, was launched at Devonport, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 August 1915
HMAS TORRENS, (torpedo boat destroyer), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 August 1915
HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), collided with a harbour ferry as she was leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the New York patrol. SYDNEY was not damaged, but the ferry’s paddlewheel box was ...
Australian Naval History on 13 August 1915
HMAS ENCOUNTER, (cruiser), landed a garrison and supplies at the cable station at Fanning Island. ENCOUNTER ran aground, and sustained damage requiring urgent repairs. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 August 1915
The Dutch schooner LILLIAN, collided with HMAS MELBOURNE, (cruiser), during a storm at St Lucia. MELBOURNE’S whaler was stove in, and her davits and gun mounts damaged. ...
Australian Naval History on 6 August 1915
HMAS PHYSCE, (cruiser), was ordered to Singapore, following reports that German agents were fomenting civil unrest in Burma and India. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 August 1915
LEUT D. T. M. Powles, RANR, commanding the captured German schooner HASAG, took nine German POWs, and confiscated arms in the Kavieng area. HASAG was captured by the sloop HMAS ...
Australian Naval History on 27 July 1915
The sloop HMAS FANTOME, (LCDR L. T. Jones, RN), was commissioned. FANTOME was launched for the RN at Sheerness, England, in March 1901. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 July 1915
HMS MALLOW, (sloop), later HMAS MALLOW, was launched at Barclay Curie, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 July 1915
SMS KONIGSBERG, (light cruiser), was destroyed in the Rufigi River, East Africa. HMAS PIONEER participated in the action. The Department of the Navy was created as a separate portfolio, and ...
Australian Naval History on 6 July 1915
HMAS PIONEER, (cruiser), and HMS HYACINTH, (cruiser), bombarded the German cruiser KONIGSBERG, and shore defences in the Rufigi River, East Africa. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 July 1915
HMAS PSYCHE (formerly HMS Psyche) , (CAPT H. Feakes, RAN), was commissioned into the RN. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 May 1915
The RAN and the RCN operated together for the first time, when HMAS MELBOURNE and HMCS NIOBE, (cruisers), joined up to conduct patrols off the east coast of the United ...
Australian Naval History on 30 April 1915
The submarine HMAS AE2, (LCDR H. H. G. D. Stoker, RN), was sunk by the Turkish torpedo boat SULTAN HISSAR in the Sea of Mamora. All of the crew of ...
Australian Naval History on 25 April 1915
The submarine HMAS AE2, (LCDR H. Stoker, RN), penetrated the Dardanelles while the first ANZAC troops were storming ashore at Gallipoli. After evading Turkish warships and mines, she broke through ...
Australian Naval History on 29 March 1915
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), took part in her first operation, a patrol across the North Sea with the Grand Fleet and light forces, from Harwich, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 March 1915
Medical officers, Staff Surgeon H. J. Brennard, and Surgeon W. J. Carr, RAN, from HMAS MELBOURNE, (cruiser), were invited to appear before a Royal Commission set up in Jamaica to ...
Australian Naval History on 7 March 1915
ADML Sir W. C. Pakenham, GCB, KCMG, KCVO, hoisted his flag in HMAS AUSTRALIA in command of the 2nd Battle- cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, in the North Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 March 1915
HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), coaled from the collier BURESK in the Abrolhos Islands north of Rio de Janeiro. The collier was a new ship named after the German collier sunk by ...
Australian Naval History on 1 March 1915
HMAS PIONEER joined RN forces blockading the German cruiser KONIGSBERG in the Rufigi River, East Africa. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 February 1915
The flagship pennant of the Second Battle Cruiser Squadron was hoisted in HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), at Rosyth, Scotland. ...