The guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSC, RAN), fired on enemy truck parks and petrol stores at Xom Vinh and Quan Tay, Vietnam. HOBART was the ...
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Australian Naval History on 10 April 1967
The guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSC, RAN), fired her 1000th round in Vietnam while supporting the US 1st Air Cavalry Division near Duc Pho. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 March 1967
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), fired the first RAN shots in the Vietnam War. The destroyer provided support fire for an attack by the US Marines 37 Battalion at Da ...
Australian Naval History on 28 March 1967
Clearance Diving Team 3 carried out their first underwater examination of a ship in the Vietnam War at Vung Tau. The vessel was the Australian ship MV JEPARIT, later to ...
Australian Naval History on 27 March 1967
The Oberon class submarine HMAS OXLEY, (LCDR D. H. Lorrimer, RAN), was commissioned. OXLEY was laid down at Scott’s Yard, Greenock, Scotland, on 2 July 1964, and launched on 24 ...
Australian Naval History on 10 March 1967
HMAS BOONAROO departed Port Wilson, VIC, on her first and only voyage to South Vietnam. A general freighter of the Australian National Line (ANL) she had been commissioned nine days ...
Australian Naval History on 7 March 1967
The guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSC, RAN), sailed from Garden Island to join the US Seventh Fleet off Vietnam. HOBART was the first RAN ship ...
Australian Naval History on 1 March 1967
The Australian White Ensign was hoisted in all ships and establishments of the RAN. The British White Ensign had been used by the RAN since 1913. The supply ship HMAS ...
Australian Naval History on 10 February 1967
The crews of HMAS DERWENT, (destroyer escort), and HM Submarines TABARD and TRUMP, landed to fight disastrous bushfires near Hobart, TAS. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 November 1966
As the floating crane “Falcon” was lifting a Tracker S2E, Bu No 151646, from the Pyrmont wharf on to a lighter, a sling broke and the aircraft fell into Sydney ...
Australian Naval History on 3 November 1966
HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), towed the USS TIRU, (submarine), off Frederick Reef in the Coral Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 October 1966
HMAS QUEENBOROUGH, (frigate), made a high speed dash from Hobart to Macquarie Island, to rescue a seriously ill scientist of the Australian Antarctic Expedition. ...
Australian Naval History on 7 October 1966
The largest warship to be built in Australia, HMAS STALWART, (escort maintenance ship), was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 July 1966
HMAS Queenborough recommissioned for service as a training ship ...
Australian Naval History on 10 June 1966
HMAS VAMPIRE, (Daring class destroyer), and the Danish ship EMILIE MAERSK, collided in the Bangkok River, Thailand. As damage to the destroyer required dockyard assistance, VAMPIRE set course for Singapore ...
Australian Naval History on 20 May 1966
Over the night of May 20th and into the morning of May 21st HMAS VENDETTA and 723 Squadron scrambled two Iroquois to search for survivors from the Dredge WD Atlas ...
Australian Naval History on 5 May 1966
HMAS Brisbane (II) was launched by the wife of the Minister for the Navy, Mrs Mavis Mary Chaney, in front of a crowd of approximately 5000 people. After receiving a ...
Australian Naval History on 28 April 1966
Sea Venom WZ900 (866) crashed off HMAS MELBOURNE in the Philippine Sea. Arrestor wire parted during carrier landing, aircraft crashed into sea. The accident happened at approx 1500 Hrs. Pilot ...
Australian Naval History on 25 April 1966
HMAS SYDNEY, (fast troop transport), sailed on her fourth voyage to Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 29 March 1966
The New York Times announced that the USN, with the co-operation of the RAN and the RAAF, would carry out an aerial survey of northern Australia, New Guinea and adjacent ...
Australian Naval History on 13 March 1966
While patrolling off Raffles Light HMAS Hawk came under fire by an Indonesian shore battery, even though she was inside Singaporean territorial waters. Eleven rounds were fired at the ship, ...
Australian Naval History on 1 March 1966
The last recorded RAN Fairey Firefly flight; after being withdrawn from frontline service in 1955. ...
Australian Naval History on 7 February 1966
RAN clearance divers operating from HMAS KIMBLA, (trials ship), located and recovered a ton of explosives lost overboard from a vessel off Lakes Entrance, VIC. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 February 1966
HMAS Gascoyne paid off. She had steamed 301,781 miles. Without being brought forward for further service, Gascoyne was sold as scrap on 15 February 1972 to the Fujita Salvage Company ...
Australian Naval History on 5 January 1966
HMAS Nirimba, RAN Apprentice Training Establishment commissioned. The site had previously been used by the military since 1950 in relation to the Fleet Air Arm. ...