The RN Air Station at Nowra, NSW, was transferred to the RAN. ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 6 December 1947
HMAS Manoora paid off. She was returned to the Adelaide Steam Ship Company on 31 August 1949 ...
Australian Naval History on 23 November 1947
HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), returned to Sydney after a cruise to Tasmania, and moored at No.2 buoy in Sydney Harbour. That night the merchant ship KING STEPHEN lost steerage way while ...
Australian Naval History on 21 November 1947
Nine members of the crew of HMAS TARAKAN, (landing ship tank), were injured, when a box of fuses in a cargo of obsolete ammunition, being dumped off Sydney Heads, exploded. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 November 1947
The Antarctic Research Vessel HMAS WYATT EARP, (CMDR K. E. Oom, OBE, RAN), was commissioned. As FANEFJORD, (wooden steamer), she was laid down in Norway in 1919. Purchased, and re-named ...
Australian Naval History on 14 November 1947
HMAS WHYALLA, (minesweeper), was transferred to the Melbourne Harbour Board and renamed RIP. The previous vessel of this name was the Queensland gunboat PALUMA. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 November 1947
HMA Ships Arunta (I) and Warramunga (I) left Sydney for a second tour of post war duty in Japan. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 October 1947
LST 3501, (renamed HMAS LABUAN on 16 December, 1948), LCDR G. M. Dixon, RANVR, in command, sailed from Sydney on the first of seven voyages to Antarctica. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 September 1947
HMAS WARRNAMBOOL, (minesweeper), sank after striking an Allied laid mine near Cockburn Reef, QLD. Two of the ship’s complement were killed in the initial explosion, and a third was drowned. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 August May 1947
The Australia Government approved the creation of the Naval (later Fleet) Air Arm. ...