The first aircraft landed on HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier). It was a Westland Whirlwind helicopter. ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 2 December 1955
HMAS Condamine paid off into Reserve at Sydney. Condamine was sold on 21 September 1961 to the Tolo Mining and Smelting Co Ltd of Hong Kong ...
Australian Naval History on 16 November 1955
HMS NIZAM, (destroyer, ex-HMAS NIZAM), was paid off for breaking up. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 November 1955
HMAS Lae was sold for scrapping after being in reserve since 1948. Lae and the former HMAS Labuan left Sydney under tow for Hong Kong on 28 October 1956 carrying ...
Australian Naval History on 28 October 1955
The aircraft carrier HMAS MELBOURNE, (ex-HMS MAJESTIC,), was commissioned. MAJESTIC was laid down in Vickers Armstrong Yard, Barrow in Furness, England, on 15 April 1943, and launched on 28 February ...
Australian Naval History on 25 October 1955
HMAS Vengeance decommissioned and reverted to the Royal Navy. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 September 1955
HMAS QUICKMATCH was re-commissioned as an anti-submarine Frigate ...
Australian Naval History on 23 August 1955
808 Squadron recommissioned at the Royal Navy Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton in the south of England. Then equipped with de Havilland Sea Venoms, the Squadron participated in the RAN’s new ...
Australian Naval History on 15 August 1955
816 squadron recommissioned at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall, England equipped with Fairey Gannet AS1s anti-submarine aircraft. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 June 1955
724 Squadron commissioned into the RAN at NAS Nowra as a fixed-wing conversion training unit with a variety of aircraft. (Was previously a RN Sqdn number). ...