First Bell UH-1B/1C Iroquois delivered to the RAN. Members of the Royal Australian Navy flew several variants of this aircraft in both the gunship and utility configuration as part of ...
Australian Naval History on 9 March 1964
Australian Naval History on 6 March 1964
HMAS Moresby officially commissioned under the command of Commander John Osborn, RAN, at Garden Island in Sydney ...
Australian Naval History on 25 February 1964
The first Royal Commission into the loss of HMAS VOYAGER, in a collision with HMAS MELBOURNE, was convened in Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 February 1964
HMAS Barcoo was decommissioned for the final time. The frigate had travelled 342,579 nautical miles during her career. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 February 1964
The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, announced the setting up of a Royal Commission to inquire into the loss of HMAS VOYAGER. The decision was a precedent, the ...
Australian Naval History on 10 February 1964
HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier), and HMAS VOYAGER, (destroyer), collided in a night exercise off Jervis Bay. VOYAGER sank with a loss of 82 lives. The GC was awarded posthumously to ...
Australian Naval History on 10 January 1964
Seacat missile systems were fitted in HMA Ships PARRAMATTA, YARRA, STUART, and DERWENT, (destroyer escorts). ...
Australian Naval History on 6 January 1964
RADM O. H. Becher, CBE, DSO, DSC and Bar, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet. RADM Becher was one of the most highly decorated permanent officers of ...
Australian Naval History on 3 January 1964
HMAS ANZAC, (destroyer), landed parties to fight bushfires on Tasman Island. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 November 1963
S. Landau was appointed as Secretary of the Department of the Navy. He held this position until 1973, when the Department of the Navy was subsumed into the Department of ...
Australian Naval History on 17 October 1963
A sub lieutenant and four midshipmen were drowned when a whaler from HMAS SYDNEY, (aircraft carrier), was swamped off Hayman Island, in the Great Barrier Reef. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 October 1963
The Australian Government placed orders for two Oberon class submarines with Scott’s Shipbuilding, Scotland. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 September 1963
The 16th MCM Squadron with 6 Bird class minesweepers deploy as part of Operation GARDENING, a minesweeping task to clear a channel into Tonolei Harbour in Bougainville, where US aircraft had ...
Australian Naval History on 15 August 1963
HMAS Warrego paid off, one week short of her 23rd birthday, having steamed 440,978 miles since commissioning on 22 August 1940. In the post war period Warrego made a significant ...
Australian Naval History on 9 August 1963
The Minister for Defence, Senator J. Gorton, announced that the Australian Minesweeping Squadron would sweep mines in Bougainville waters. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 July 1963
817 squadron recommissioned with the Wessex 31A helicopter ...
Australian Naval History on 5 July 1963
A Sea Venom crashed into Sydney Harbour following a collision with another Sea Venom during a flypast. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 June 1963
The River class, (modified type 12 frigate), destroyer escort, HMAS STUART, (CMDR M. L. Molony, RAN), was commissioned. STUART was laid down in Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, on 20 March ...
Australian Naval History on 30-june-1963
805 Squadron, flying Sea Venoms, decommissioned ...
Australian Naval History on 8 May 1963
HMAS QUEENBOROUGH, (frigate), struck HMS TABARD, (submarine), while exercising off Sydney. Both vessels were damaged but returned to Port under their own power. ...
Australian Naval History on 24 April 1963
HMAS Quickmatch paid off to Reserve at Williamstown. After paying off she served as an accommodation ship at Williamstown. On 15 February 1972 Quickmatch was sold for scrap to Fujita ...
Australian Naval History on 30 March 1963
805 Squadron, flying the Sea Venom, decommissioned at NAS Nowra ...
Australian Naval History on 28 March 1963
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II signalled the destroyer HMAS ANZAC at the conclusion of the Royal Tour of Australia; “Splice the main brace”. The RAN does not splice the main ...
Australian Naval History on 20 March 1963
Two Westland Scout AH-1 helicopters were acquired by the RAN and operated by 723 Naval Air Squadron. The helicopters were embarked in the hydrographic survey ship HMAS Moresby with one ...
Australian Naval History on 11 March 1963
The first Wessex helicopter Search and Rescue (SAR) mission occurred when GPCAPT Mather ejected from his RAAF Sabre jet near Lake Bathurst in NSW, and was reported as having landed near ‘a ...