Exercise Bersama Lima 2004 commenced in Singaporean and Malaysian waters. This majorFive-Power Defence Arrangement (FPDA) Exercise involved over 30 ships, 80 aircraft, and some 3,000 personnel. The RAN was represented ...
RAN Clearance Diving Teams
Australian Naval History on 21 December 1995
The badly damaged hulk of HMAS DERWENT was finally scuttled, by charges set by CDT 4, in deep water to the west of Rottnest Island, WA. During the previous 10 ...
Australian Naval History on 17 August 1993
The 19.5 metre diving boats SEAL and PORPOISE were taken over by the RAN at Geraldton, WA after completion by Geraldton Boat Builders. They joined SHARK, which is already in ...
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 30 January 1991
A RAN Clearance Diving Team arrived in the operational area of the Persion Gulf and was immediately involved in the preparations for the planned amphibious assult on the beaches of ...
Australian Naval History on 1 January 1975
HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier), and HMAS STUART, (destroyer escort), arrived in the cyclone destroyed city of Darwin. Over the following days they were joined by HMA Ships STALWART, HOBART, SUPPLY, ...
Australian Naval History on 26 December 1974
Operation Navy Help, to assist with the clean up and re-establishment of services in the shattered city of Darwin, commenced. The first RAN asset to arrive was an HS748 aircraft, ...
Australian Naval History on 19 July 1968
A section from CDT3, commanded by LEUT Lees, ambushed a Viet Cong platoon travelling in sampans up a canal. Twenty-five of the enemy were killed. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 February 1968
RAN Clearance Diving Teams commenced operations in Vietnam. The first contingent of Clearance Diving Team 3 (CDT 3) personnel departed Sydney by air on 5 February 1967, arriving in Saigon ...
Australian Naval History on 23 November 1967
RAN divers from CDT 3 removed a length of heavy steel cable which had wrapped around the starboard propeller of the Australian Army ship HARRY CHAUVEL, at Vung Tau, Vietnam. ...
