HMAS SYDNEY, (frigate), visited the French port of Toulon while on her circumnavigation of the world, following the commemoration services at Gallipoli in April. She was the first ship of ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 30 April 1990
HMAS CURLEW, the last of the RAN’s Ton class minesweepers, was decommissioned at HMAS WATERHEN, Sydney after 28 years of service and 38 years to the day after her keel ...
Australian Naval History on 27 April 1990
HMAS OXLEY, (submarine), sailed through the Dardanelles to the Sea of Marmora, thus emulating the Australian submarine AE2, which had undertaken the same action some 75 years before. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 April 1990
Three RAN vessels, (HMA Ships SYDNEY, TOBRUK and OXLEY), represented the RAN at the 75th Anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli. SYDNEY was chosen as her namesake had escorted the ...
Australian Naval History on 11 April 1990
HMAS Gladstone, a Cairns-based patrol boat, pursued and apprehended a Taiwanese fishing trawler off the North Australian coast. The vessel was poaching in Australian waters. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 April 1990
HMAS BUNBURY, (patrol boat), rescued 118 Indo-Chinese boat people off Koolan Island, on the Kimberley coast of WA. ...
A sailor’s prayer
By the Late Petty Officer H.B. SHIPSTONE. Lost in HMAS “SYDNEY”, November 19, 1941 Let me Live, O Mighty Master, Through this War — Yet if I’m Slain Tasting Triumph and ...
HMAS Shropshire War Record
A very brief resume of HMAS Shropshire’s war record during its 18½ months in the South West Pacific and firing its last salvo on July 9, 1945. Operations and Battles – ...
Australian Naval History on 28 March 1990
HMAS WESTRALIA, (oil replenishment ship), conducted her first dual replenishment at sea, with HMA Ships TOBRUK, (landing ship heavy), and SYDNEY, (guided missile destroyer). ...
Book Review: Silencing debate on Shropshire
Mr Stan Nicholls wants to silence debate on what did and did not happen to HMAS Shropshire during World War II. So he has written a 330-page hard-cover book on ...