HMAT Geelong collided with SS Bonvilston in the Mediterranean and sank ...
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Australian Naval History on 20 December 1915
The last personnel of the RAN Bridging Train, (RANBT), left Suvla Bay at 0430 making them the last Australians to depart the Gallipoli Peninsula. A 50-man team under SBLT C. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 December 1915
The River class destroyer HMAS HUON, was commissioned. HUON was laid down in Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, on 23 January 1913, and launched as HMAS DERWENT on 19 December 1914. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 December 1915
HMAS SWAN, (torpedo boat destroyer), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 November 1915
HMS GERANIUM, (later HMAS GERANIUM, survey vessel), was launched at Greenock, Scotland. ...
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 Psyche sailed from Sydney for what was to be a routine patrol in the Bay of Bengal but ended up being a deployment of 2 years and 43 days. ...
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 ...