By Hector Donohue Port Clearance Parties, or P Parties, were established in the Royal Navy (RN) in late 1943 and were trained to clear the ports and harbours of Northern ...
Clearance Diving Team
Occasional Paper 106: RAN Clearance Divers: Records set in 1961
The Clearance Diving Branch of the Royal Australian Navy was formed in 1951 with the primary role of “location, identification and disposal of mines underwater”. Its secondary roles included “underwater ...
Book Review: United and Undaunted – the First 100 Years 1911-2011
United and Undaunted – the First 100 Years 1911-2011, by E. W. Linton and H. J. Donohue. Grinkle Press, Canberra, 2015. 376 pages, illustrated, with appendices and index. Cost $70 ...
RAN Mine Countermeasure Forces: The Conception and Birth of the Australian Clearance Diver
By Sub-Lieutenant N.J. Laing, RAN Nathan Laing graduated from Emmanuel College in 2004 undertaking diploma studies in Justice Administration before joining the Queensland Police Service. During his time as a ...
An RAN Clearance Diver in the Gulf War
A Naval Career in Clearance Diving – Jake Linton
Australian Naval History on 10 March 2006
HMA Ships MANOORA, (landing platform amphibious, CMDR A. J. Rourke, RAN), WARRAMUNGA, (ANZAC class guided missile frigate, CMDR D. W. Jordan, RAN), and NORMAN, (mine countermeasures ship, LCDR T. J. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 February 2003
The main body of Clearance Diving Team 3 arrived in Bahrain for service in the Persian Gulf/Iraq, as part of the Australian commitment to Operation Falconer, (the war in Iraq). ...
RAN Clearance Diving Operations in the Gulf War – 1991
The RAN Clearance Diving Team in Vietnam
New Diving Launches Arrive
August 16, 1993 saw two new large diving launches constructed by Geraldton Boat Builders of Geraldton, arrive at HMAS STIRLING for handover to the Royal Australian Navy in company with ...
Australian Naval History on 22 November 1993
Exercise Dugong was held off Townsville, QLD, to test the RAN’s Mines Counter Measures, Clearance Diving Teams and Ordnance Disposal techniques. ...
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. They will join SHARK, which is already in service with Clearance Diving Team ...
Letters: HMAS Terka and the Clearance Diving Team
I was very interested to read in the March Bulletin the history and background of HMAS Terka submitted by D J Davis. I was the second in command of Clearance ...
Australian Naval History on 10 December 1968
Clearance Diving Team 3 recovered bodies, weapons and diving equipment from a Viet Cong supply sampan, sunk in an ambush at Rung Sat, Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 March 1968
RADM G. J. B. Crabb, DSC, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet. PO W. H. Ellery, (Clearance Diving Team 3), accompanied a US Navy reconnaissance of Long ...
Australian Naval History on 2 November 1967
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), attacked enemy supply craft and a boat-building yard, on the Son Giang River, Vietnam. PO R. A. Donne, (RAN Clearance Diving Team 3), was wounded ...