HMAS PHYSCE, (cruiser), was ordered to Singapore, following reports that German agents were fomenting civil unrest in Burma and India. ...
Australian Units
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 ...