PRIOR TO FEDERATION, VICTORIA’S DEFENCES were exposed as the British naval presence was located in far away Sydney. As a result a powerful 16 ship fleet evolved. This Victorian Navy ...
HMVS Nelson
The Southern Base of the RAN
Australian Naval History on 28 April 1898
HMVS NELSON was decommissioned and sold out of service. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 September 1870
Gun teams from the Victorian Naval Brigade, exercised for the first time in HMVS NELSON. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 June 1814
HMS NELSON, later HMVS NELSON, was launched on the River Thames, London. ...