RAN Clearance Diving Team 1, under LEUT D. Ramsden, RAN, salvaged the patrol boat HMAS ARROW at Darwin. The patrol boat sank during Cyclone Tracy. ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 1 January 1975
HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier), and HMAS STUART, (destroyer escort), arrived in the cyclone destroyed city of Darwin. Over the following days they were joined by HMA Ships STALWART, HOBART, SUPPLY, ...
This Man Howden – Captain Harry L. Howden, CBE, RAN
The First England to Australia Submarine Voyage
HMAS Quickmatch – A Personal Account Of Construction
Australian Naval History on 31 December 1974
HMA Ships BRISBANE and FLINDERS were the first ships to arrive in Darwin, to commence work as part of Operation Navy Help, the cleanup and rebuilding of Darwin following the ...
Australian Naval History on 26 December 1974
Operation Navy Help, to assist with the clean up and re-establishment of services in the shattered city of Darwin, commenced. The first RAN asset to arrive was an HS748 aircraft, ...
Australian Naval History on 25 December 1974
Cyclone Tracy struck and leveled the city of Darwin. The Naval Headquarters building was destroyed, and the Naval Officer Commanding Northern Australia, (CAPT E. E. Johnston, OBE, RAN), and two ...
The Pusser’s Bus
The Seagull V amphibian or Walrus or Pusser’s Bus was the best known aircraft of the Royal Australian Navy in World War Two. Carried by all cruisers this ubiquitous aircraft ...
Canberra’s fate
It was 1.45 in the morning, Serene and quiet the sea; The Canberra had steamed into Tulagi, With Guadalcanal on the lee. The Aussie patrol was with us With Yankee ...