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 10 June 1966
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 18 March 1966
The RAN Clearance Diving Teams 1 and 2 were formed. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 March 1966
The Queen’s Commendation was awarded to the following personnel of the RAN’s Clearance Diving Teams for rendering safe, and later destroying, a World War II mine, washed ashore in a ...
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The last recorded RAN Fairey Firefly flight; after being withdrawn from frontline service in 1955.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 28 February 1966
The Australian Government made a grant of $20,000 for the construction of a replica of HMS ENDEAVOUR to retrace CAPT Cook’s voyages. ...
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 28 January 1966
RADM V. A. T. Smith, CBE, DSC, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet. ...
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. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 December 1965
The former Chief of the Naval Stoff, Vice Admiral Sir Hastings Harrington, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., was buried at sea from HMAS Vampire, off Sydney. Vice Admiral Harrington died in Canberra ...
Australian Naval History on 18 December 1965
The Perth class, (Charles F Adams, DDG), guided missile destroyer HMAS HOBART, (CAPT G. R. Griffiths, DSO, RAN), was commissioned. HOBART was laid down in Defoe Shipbuilding Co, Bay City, ...
Australian Naval History on 1 December 1965
The Australian Naval Board approved ‘Australia’ shoulder insignia as standard uniform for the RAN. ...
Australian Naval History on 7 November 1965
LEUT Hugh Randall Syme, GC, GM and Bar, RANVR, died in Melbourne. Syme distinguished himself in rendering safe a wide variety of explosive devices employed by the Germans. Many of ...
Australian Naval History on 28 October 1965
In the Australian Federal Parliament the Member for Batman, Mr S. J. Benson, argued with respect to the White Ensign being flown in Vietnam by Australia ships, which at that ...
Australian Naval History on 21 September 1965
HMAS MILDURA, (minesweeper), was sold out of service for breaking up at Brisbane. For the last 10 years of her life, she served as a stationary training ship for the ...
Australian Naval History on 4 August 1965
HMAS Yarra (III), commenced operations around West Malaysia as part of the Indonesian Confrontation conflict. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 August 1965
HMAS Parramatta (III), concluded operations around Borneo as part of the Indonesian Confrontation conflict ...
Australian Naval History on 17 July 1965
The Perth class, (Charles F Adams, DDG), guided missile destroyer HMAS PERTH, (CAPT I. H. Cartwright, RAN), was commissioned. PERTH was laid down in Defoe Shipbuilding Co, Bay City, Michigan, ...
Australian Naval History on 8 June 1965
HMAS SYDNEY, (fast troop transport), arrived at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, on her first passage to the war zone. ...