HMAS Diamantina was recommissioned into the RAN as a survey and oceanographic research vessel. Diamantina had previously paid off to the reserve in August 1946 after service in New Guinea ...
Australian Naval History on 22 June 1959
Australian Naval History on 8 June 1959
HMAS Cootamundra paid off. Declared for disposal on 27 September 1961, she was sold to Banks Bros & Street on 28 March 1962 ...
Australian Naval History on 20 May 1959
LEUT(P) Stanley Ray Carmichael RAN & ASLT(O) Mike Williams RAN lost their lives when their Sea Venom aircraft of 724 Squadron flew into the sea whilst on a photographic exercise ...
Australian Naval History on 24 April 1959
HMA Ships SWAN and WARREGO commenced a three-month survey of the Outer Whitsunday Passage, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 April 1959
The Minister for the Navy, Mr. J. Gorton, announced the frigates BARCOO, DIAMANTINA, and GASCOYNE, were to be re-commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 March 1959
VADM Roy Dowling, DSO, RAN, is appointed Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, (the forerunner of the Chief of the Defence Force). ...
Australian Naval History on 24 February 1959
VADM Sir Henry Burrell, CB, OBE, was appointed as Chief of Naval Staff. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 January 1959
HMAS PARRAMATTA, (destroyer escort), was commissioned at Sydney. PARRAMATTA was the second ship of her class built in Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 December 1958
HMAS Kookaburra paid off at Sydney and without any further sea-going service was removed from the Navy list and declared for disposal on 24 June 1965. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 December 1958
808 Squadron, flying Sea Venoms, decommissioned at Nowra. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 November 1958
The Daring class destroyer HMAS VENDETTA, (CAPT R. J. Robertson, DSC, RAN), was commissioned. VENDETTA was laid down in Williamstown Dockyard, VIC, on 4 July 1949, and launched on 3 ...
Australian Naval History on 18 August 1958
817 Squadron, flying Gannetts, decommissioned.. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 August 1958
HMAS HORSHAM, (minesweeper), was sold for breaking up. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 July 1958
The first issue of the RAN’s newspaper, Navy News, was published. HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), accidentally rammed the caisson of the Albert Dock, at Williamstown Dockyard, VIC, where she ...
Australian Naval History on 4 July 1958
HMAS WARRAMUNGA, (destroyer), represented Australia at the 12th anniversary of the Philippines’ Republic. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 May 1958
CAPT C. M. Hudson, RAN, commanding HMAS QUEENBOROUGH, (frigate), suffered a stroke while the ship was at sea off Point Gellibrand. The Executive Officer, LCDR V. A. Parker, RAN, was ...
Australian Naval History on 6 May 1958
HMA Ships SWAN, COOTAMUNDRA, FREMANTLE, and WARREGO, commenced a detailed survey of the Timor Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 April 1958
The Indonesian Navy ship HANG TUAH, (ex HMNS MOROTAI, ex HMAS IPSWICH), was sunk in a bombing attack off North Borneo. The WWII Mitchell bomber was piloted by an American ...
Australian Naval History on 10 April 1958
HMA Ships QUALITY and QUIBERON, (destroyers), were decommissioned at Sydney and sold to Mitsubishi in Japan, for breaking up. RADM O. H. Becher, DSO, DSC, RAN, who was the Fleet ...
Australian Naval History on 1 April 1958
HMS NORMAN, (destroyer), formerly HMAS NORMAN, was paid off for disposal. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 March 1958
HMAS Sprightly (Tug) was decommissioned. 805 Squadron recommissioned at NAS Nowra with de Havilland Sea Venoms for service in HMAS Melbourne. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 March 1958
805 Squadron, flying Sea Furies, decommissioned at NAS Nowra. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 March 1958
805 Squadron Sea Fury’s making a final farewell flight over Sydney Harbour with the squadron decommissioned on 26 March 1958; ...
Australian Naval History on 24 February 1958
HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), conveyed Her Majesty the Queen Mother from Circular Quay to Manly. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 February 1958
The RAN’s veteran depot ship, HMAS PLATYPUS, departed Sydney bound for Japan to be broken up. She had commenced service with the RAN in 1919, and had been present at ...