HMAS PERTH and USS HAMNER, (guided missile destroyers), came under heavy fire from Viet Cong shore batteries off Dong Hoi. ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 16 December 1967
HMAS SWAN, (destroyer escort), was launched at Williamstown Naval Dockyard, VIC. The Perth class, (Charles F Adams, DDG), guided missile destroyer HMAS BRISBANE, (CAPT A. A. Willis, RAN), was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 December 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), sank four and damaged four, enemy supply craft near Dong Hoi, Vietnam. Later, on the same day, PERTH fired on three barges alongside a pier ...
Australian Naval History on 12 December 1967
The guided missile destroyer HMAS PERTH, (CAPT P. Doyle, RAN), relieved USS GOLDSBOROUGH as command ship of Task Unit 77.1.2 off Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 December 1967
HMAS SYDNEY, (fast troop transport), completed her eighth round trip to Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 November 1967
First Operational Grumman Tracker S2E aircraft delivered to the RAN. (One non flying S2A and one non flying S2E had been delivered in 1966 for training) ...
Australian Naval History on 17 November 1967
The Attack class patrol boat HMAS ATTACK, (LCDR R. J. R. Pennock, RAN), the lead vessel of the Attack class patrol boats, was commissioned. ATTACK was laid down in Evans ...
Australian Naval History on 13 November 1967
The Attack class patrol boat HMAS AITAPE, (LCDR W. S. G. Bateman, RAN), was commissioned. AITAPE was laid down in Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, QLD, in November 1966, and launched on ...
Australian Naval History on 2 November 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), attacked enemy supply craft and a boat-building yard, on the Son Giang River, Vietnam. PO R. A. Donne, (RAN Clearance Diving Team 3), was wounded ...
Australian Naval History on 31 October 1967
HMAS Melbourne departed from San Diego for the return journey to Australia after a journey to collect new FAA aircraft. She visited Pearl Harbor and Suva en route, and arrived ...