HMAS QUEENSBOROUGH was commissioned into the RAN after service in the RN. She replaced HMAS NORMAN on transfer to the RAN. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 October 1945
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1945
The Q class destroyer HMAS QUADRANT was commissioned into the RAN after service in the RN. She replaced HMAS NIZAM on transfer to the RAN. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 October 1945
HMAS Nizam paid off and on the same day recommissioned as HMS Nizam. Her complement transferred to HMAS Quadrant and the Royal Navy complement from that ship manned Nizam for ...
Australian Naval History on 16 October 1945
The 20th Minesweeping Flotilla was reformed with Swan (Captain RV Wheatley RAN) as Flotilla Leader for mine clearance operations in Australian, New Guinea and Solomon Islands waters. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 October 1945
The DSC was awarded to LEUT E. J. Peel, RAN, and LCDR S. W. S. Scott, RAN(E), for conspicuous gallantry in the Battle of the Philippines. LEUT Peel’s award was ...
Australian Naval History on 9 October 1945
Chief Stoker Percy Collins became the first Australian to be awarded a Bar to the Distinguished Service Medal. He was awarded the DSM for service in HMAS NAPIER off Crete ...
Australian Naval History on 3 October 1945
HMAS Gympie, in company with HMA Ships Moresby, Hawkesbury (I), Katoomba and Gladstone, were present at Koepang in Portuguese Timor for the surrender of the 48th Japanese Division. A naval ...
Australian Naval History on 1 October 1945
The Japanese surrender of Ocean Island was signed on board HMAS DIAMANTINA. The RN was represented by the motor launch HMS KIA KIA. ...
Australian Naval History on 27 September 1945
The British Navies laid 260,000 mines in WWII, which sank or damaged 1588 enemy vessels. The Axis laid 225,000 mines which claimed 1117 victims. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 September 1945
HMAS STRAHAN was damaged by a mine explosion while sweeping a minefield off the China coast. The ship returned to Hong Kong for repairs. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 September 1945
A BBC announcer described the scene in Tokyo Harbour, after the surrender ceremony:- ‘and there are the four Australian minesweepers BALLARAT, IPSWICH, PIRIE, and CESSNOCK. They are a husky bunch ...
Australian Naval History on 19 September 1945
HMAS SWAN, (sloop), accepted the Japanese surrender at Namatanai, New Ireland. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 September 1945
US Submarines based in Australia during WWII, sank 25 destroyers, 17 frigates, four minesweepers, 10 submarine chasers, torpedo boats, and gunboats. Eighteen Australian-based submarines were lost through enemy action. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 September 1945
HMAS Winter decommissioned in Sydney. She was sold on 25 January 1946. ...
Australian Naval History on 13 September 1945
The Japanese surrender of Nauru was signed on board HMAS DIAMANTINA, (frigate). ...
Australian Naval History on 12 September 1945
HMAS HAWKESBURY, (River class frigate), became the first ship of the RAN to enter Singapore since the surrender to the Japanese in 1942. The surrender of Japanese forces at Wewak, ...
Australian Naval History on 11 September 1945
Japanese forces on Timor signed the surrender document on board HMAS MORESBY, (survey vessel/escort). ...
Australian Naval History on 10 September 1945
The Japanese surrender of Kairiru and Muschu islands was signed on board ML805. HMA Ships GLENELG, COOTAMUNDRA, JUNEE, and LATROBE, (minesweepers), embarked liberated POW’s at Ambon, and transported them to ...
Australian Naval History on 9 September 1945
HMA Ships BUNDABERG, KAPUNDA, BLACK SNAKE, RIVER SNAKE, and ML 1343, plus army craft used by SRD, AM 1629, AM 1499, AM 1983, and AM 1985, accepted the Japanese surrender ...
Australian Naval History on 8 September 1945
HMAS VENDETTA transported 28 released European POW’s from Rabaul to Madang, for repatriation to Australia. The surrender of Dutch Borneo by the Japanese was accepted on board HMAS Burdekin by ...
Australian Naval History on 7 September 1945
The sloop HMAS Moresby (I), accompanied by ten other Australian warships (including HMAS Parkes) and two Dutch vessels, sailed from Darwin to conduct the ceremony of surrender of all Japanese ...
Australian Naval History on 6 September 1945
The surrender of Dutch Borneo was signed by the Japanese, in HMAS BURDEKIN, (frigate). Twenty five per cent of the 76,000 mines laid by British naval forces in WWII, were ...
Australian Naval History on 2 September 1945
The formal surrender of Japan was signed on the USS MISSOURI, (battleship), in Tokyo Bay. The RAN was represented by CDRE J. A. Collins, CB, and HMA Ships SHROPSHIRE, HOBART, ...
Australian Naval History on 1 September 1945
CMDR G. D. Tancred, RAN, was awarded the DSC for conspicuous gallantry in surveying forward combat areas in New Guinea and the Philippines. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 August 1945
HMAS Fremantle arrived at Hong Kong and whilst based there as a unit of the 21st Minesweeping Flotilla, took part in a series of clearing sweeps in Chinese waters ...