In the third part of his story on Australian Naval Aviation, Group Captain Isaacs discusses the merits of the Sopwith Ship’s Strutter and the Sopwith Ship’s Camel, aircraft that played ...
Australian Units
AUSTRALIA Sinks the Elenore Woerman
WHEN THE NEW BRITAIN – NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN drew to a close HMAS Australia was ordered to the Atlantic. The route selected was east across the Pacific, and so the ...
Out of the Past – pictorial
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Australian Naval History on 6 March 1974
HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), picked up a boat containing survivors from the merchant ship WARAWI, which had foundered in the Arafura Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 February 1974
HMAS TORRENS escorted the royal yacht BRITANNIA on the Royal Tour of the Pacific. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 February 1974
The landing craft heavy HMAS BETANO, was commissioned. BETANO was laid down in Walkers Yard, Maryborough, QLD, in September 1972, and launched on 5 December 1972. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 February 1974
HMAS CAIRNS, (Shore Establishment in Cairns), was commissioned. ...
Lower Deck Memories – 1908-1911
Mr. Blakeney wrote these memoirs at the age of 83. He served in the Navy for 49 years, commencing as a cadet in 1906 and ending as captain of the ...
The Four Lives of HMS Wexford
MOST WARSHIPS have inbuilt lasting qualities. HMS Victory has weathered almost two centuries, and several United States ships of war are almost as venerable. HMS Wexford, a later Hunt class ...
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 2
Farewell to Old Sydney Forever
ALTHOUGH HER DAYS WERE NUMBERED, the shock announcement on July 20th ‘The transport HMAS Sydney is to be paid off. She will be withdrawn from the Australian Fleet and will ...
Captain Joseph Burnett RAN
Australian Naval History on 16 November 1973
HMAS BANDOLIER, (patrol boat), was transferred to the Indonesian Navy and renamed SIBARAU. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 November 1973
HMAS Sydney decommissioned, by which time she had steamed 395,591 miles as a fast troop transport. Since first commissioning in 1948 she had steamed 711,549 miles. Stripped of all useful ...
Australian Naval History on 8 November 1973
Skyhawk A4G (889) crashed due to catapult failure while launching from MELBOURNE during multinational exercise near Singapore. SBLT Barry Evans remained in the aircraft while the ship passed overhead and ...
Australian Naval History on 19 October 1973
The landing craft heavy HMAS SALAMAUA, was commissioned. SALAMAUA was laid down in Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, Queensland. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1973
UPI and AP issued a press release quoting: General Brown, US Air Force Chief-of-Staff; ‘Early in the summer of 1968 near the Demilitarised Zone, [Vietnam], there was a series of ...
Australian Naval History on 10 August 1973
The landing craft heavy HMAS WEWAK, was commissioned. WEWAK was laid down in Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, QLD, in March 1972, and launched on 18 May 1972. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 August 1973
HMAS BETANO, (landing ship heavy), was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 July 1973
The bow and stern sections of the WWI torpedo boat destroyer HMAS PARRAMATTA, were salvaged from a mud bank on the Hawkesbury River, where she had foundered in 1934. The ...
Australian Naval History on 20 July 1973
The Australian Government decided to pay off HMAS SYDNEY, (fast troop transport). ...
Australian Naval History on 28 June 1973
The frigate HMNZS OTAGO, (CMDR Alan Tyrrell, RNZN), departed New Zealand for the French territory of Mururoa Atoll to protest against the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. OTAGO was re-fuelled ...
Australian Naval History on 25 June 1973
HMAS Supply sailed from Sydney having received orders to support HMNZS Otago on a protest mission to observe French nuclear atmospheric tests taking place at Mururoa Atoll in the South ...
Australian Naval History on 15 June 1973
The landing craft heavy HMAS TARAKAN, was commissioned. TARAKAN was laid down in Walker’s Yard, Maryborough, QLD, in December 1971, and launched on 16 March 1972. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 June 1973
The first Hawker Siddeley 748 transport aircraft was delivered to the RAN’s Fleet Air Arm. The new aircraft replaced the Dakota transports in service since World War II. ...