The following report on the salvage and restoration of Britain s first submarine, Holland 1, appeared in the January issue of the Royal Navy’s ‘Navy News’. HOLLAND 1, the Royal ...
Holland 1 – Royal Navy’s First Submarine Salvaged
Gunboats on the Yangtse: 1920 to 1937
Australian Naval History on 3 March 1984
HMAS SUCCESS, (Durance Class Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment), was launched at Cockatoo Island Dockyard by Lady Helen Stephens, (wife of the Governor General Sir Ninian Stephens). At the time she was ...
Australian Naval History on 28 February 1984
First Aerospatiale AS350B Squirrel delivered to RAN FAA ...
Australian Naval History on 14 February 1984
A Sydney-based syndicate announced plans to acquire the aircraft carrier, HMAS MELBOURNE for conversion to a floating gambling casino to be moored outside territorial waters off Eden, NSW. The far-fetched ...
Australian Naval History on 13 February 1984
Ships of the RAN were placed on standby for a possible rescue mission following reports of earthquakes close to Rabaul. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 February 1984
816 Squadron, equipped with Westland Wessex Mk.31B helicopters, commissioned at Nowra. ...
Australian Naval History on 7 February 1984
RAN Squadron HS816 commissioned and equipped with the Westland Wessex Mark 31B to operate in an Army support role. The squadron was decommissioned three years later ...
Australian Naval History on 21 January 1984
HMAS DUBBO, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was launched at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 January 1984
The destroyer escort HMAS STUART, (CMDR. C. Barrie, RAN), became the first large RAN warship to be home-ported on the Australian west coast. ...
Australian Naval History on 18 January 1984
HMA Ships WARNAMBOOL and BARBETTE, (patrol boats), escorted a Taiwanese motor trawler apprehended poaching in Australian waters off Great Detached Reef, into Cairns. The trawler was found guilty by a ...
HMAS Barcoo
HMAS BARCOO was one of the eight Australian built River Class anti-submarine frigates laid down during the Second World War. All except Barwon and Macquarie saw active service in the ...
The Chequered Career of HMAS Penguin
STANDING PROUDLY IN THE GROUNDS of HMAS Penguin at Balmoral, Sydney, is the figurehead of the old Wild Swan Class sloop that gave the establishment its name. It is of ...
Minesweeping in the old Protector
Anon This verbatim account of life in the old gunboat HMAS Protector was found in the editorial files of the late Harry Adlam, but unfortunately it lacked the author’s name. ...
HMAS Manoora-Pushing towards the Philippines
The Invincible Invincible
THE SHIP THAT CHANGED NAVAL THINKING visited Sydney in December and despite a refusal on Government level to use the Captain Cook Graving Dock won vast public support. Here is ...
Australian Naval History on 10 December 1983
The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS GERALDTON, was commissioned. GERALDTON was laid down in Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 December 1983
Claims that Harrier VSTOL aircraft from HMS HERMES theoretically ‘shot down waves’ of RAAF aircraft during Operation Kangaroo 83, revived misgivings about the withdrawal of carrier borne aircraft from the ...
Australian Naval History on 8 December 1983
851 Squadron aircraft perform last flypast of RAN fixed-wing aircraft at HMAS Creswell ...
Australian Naval History on 2 December 1983
A sailor and an RAAF fitter .were killed when a RAN Wessex helicopter, piloted by SBLT M. Henche, crashed in Bass Strait. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 November 1983
Redundant flying officers of the RAN Fleet Air Arm were recruited by the RN to man a Fleet Air Arm Squadron. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 November 1983
The Australian Government signed an agreement with waterfront trade unions to ensure a minimum of industrial disputes during the building of two guided missile frigates at Williamstown Dockyard, VIC. It ...
Australian Naval History on 19 November 1983
The Wessex celebrated 21 years of service in the RAN and the occasion was marked with a flypast of RAN Wessex, Iroquois and Sea King helicopters as well Royal Navy ...
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1983
RADM G. Woolrych, AO, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet. ...
