Clearance Divers operating from HMAS TOWNSVILLE, (patrol boat), disposed of 12 unexploded bombs found on the seabed off Middleton Reef, Queensland. ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 2 January 1992
HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), joined the Multi-Nation Force in the Red Sea enforcing United Nations sanctions against Iraq. ...
Antarctic Lubricants
SCOTCH & ICEBERG Lieutenant John Pain RANR (Ret), an Ansett Airlines career man and personal helicopter pilot to the late Sir Reginald Ansett, gave an enthralling address recently to the ...
HMAS Tingira – Legacy Of Service (1912-1927)
HMAS Sydney – Rottnest Island Guardship
It is a little known fact that HMAS SYDNEY II, one of the Royal Australian Navy’s major warships in World War Two “hid” off Rottnest Island at the approaches to ...
Australian Naval History on 27 November 1991
HMAS WOLLONGONG, (patrol boat), operated with Solomon Islands maritime forces in the joint maritime surveillance off Honiara, exercise Weather Eye. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 November 1991
HMA Ships BRISBANE, (guided missile destroyer), SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), and CDT3, were awarded the Meritorious Unit Citation for service in the first Gulf War. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 October 1991
HMAS JERVIS BAY, (training ship), and HMAS BUNBURY, (patrol boat), sailed from Sydney on a ‘show the flag’ cruise to Jakarta, Brunei, Tacloban, Cebu and Ujung Pandang. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 October 1991
Australian Army Blackhawk helicopters commenced ‘First of Class Flight Trials’ on HMAS TOBRUK, (landing ship heavy). TOBRUK is rated to carry up to five Sea King helicopters. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 October 1991
HMAS STUART, (destroyer escort), departed Sydney under tow by the tug WOREE, for breaking up in Pakistan. ...
Australian Naval History on 7 October 1991
HMA Ships PERTH, HOBART, ORION, DUBBO, and IPSWICH, participated in the multinational Exercise AUCKEX 91 in New Zealand waters. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 October 1991
HMA Ships HOBART and PERTH, (guided missile destroyers), with DUBBO and IPSWICH, (patrol boats), represented the RAN at the 50th Anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Navy. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 September 1991
HMAS DARWIN, (guided missile frigate), visited her name-city, on completion of her first deployment to the United Nations’ fleet in the Arabian Gulf ...
HMAS Sydney – A Tale of Two Warships
Obituary: Rear-Admiral H.A.S SHOWERS, CBE
Australian Naval History on 10 September 1991
HMAS DUBBO, (patrol boat), and the Australian built RMIS LOMOR, (patrol boat), approached the Marshall Islands port of Majuro on the latter’s delivery voyage ...
Australian Naval History on 7 September 1991
The ship’s companies of HMAS SWAN, (destroyer escort), and HMAS WESTRALIA, (auxiliary oiler replenishment), commenced repairs to Olongapo Hospital, damaged when Mount Pinatubo erupted ...
Australian Naval History on 2 September 1991
HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), sailed from Sydney for the Red Sea, to maintain sanctions placed on Iraq by the United Nations ...
Australian Naval History on 26 July 1991
CMDR J. Parker, and CPO Darryl Dilger, arrived in Bahrain as the Australian representatives in the Allied Chemical and Biological Weapons Inspection Team. CPO Dilger was awarded the Australian Service ...
Australian Naval History on 20 July 1991
HMAS GERALDTON, (patrol boat), was dispatched to sea to act as a communication link between the disabled Greek tanker KURKI, disabled off the coast of WA, and shore stations. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 July 1991
HMAS SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), was the first ship of the RAN to visit the German naval port of Kiel. The Australians were welcomed by survivors of the German raider ...
Australian Naval History on 8 July 1991
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), rescued the pilot of a Singapore Air Force F-16 aircraft, which crashed into the sea after a mid-air collision. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 July 1991
HMAS Brisbane departed Sydney for her final voyage, a circumnavigation of Australia and New Zealand ...
Australian Naval History on 26 June 1991
HMAS STUART, (destroyer escort), decommissioned at HMAS Stirling, WA. ...
Australian Naval History on 24 June 1991
HMAS DARWIN, (guided missile frigate), led the merchant ships AL SALAM and SANDGATE through a deep water channel in a minefield off Kuwait. ...