• Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Gladstone, for the port city of Gladstone, Queensland: HMAS Gladstone (J324), a Bathurst-class corvette commissioned...
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    HMAS Gladstone (J324/M324), named for the city of Gladstone, Queensland, was one of 60 Bathurst-class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one...
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    HMAS Gladstone (FCPB 216), named for the city of Gladstone, Queensland, is a Fremantle-class patrol boat, formerly of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)....
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  • Australian Navy. He has commanded the ships HMAS Gladstone (2002–04), HMAS Darwin (2008–10) and the flagship HMAS Canberra (2015–17), and served as Deputy...
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  • Gladstone Publishing, publisher of Disney Comics in the 1980s and 1990s Gladstone bag, a type of suitcase with flexible sides and a rigid frame HMAS Gladstone...
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    HMAS Warrnambool HMAS Townsville HMAS Wollongong HMAS Launceston HMAS Whyalla HMAS Ipswich HMAS Cessnock HMAS Bendigo HMAS Gawler HMAS Geraldton HMAS Dubbo...
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  • Australian National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 18 September 2016. "HMAS Castlemaine". HMAS Castlemaine. Retrieved 18 September 2016. "Shipwreck Databases:...
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    Type Class Commissioned HMAS Adelaide L01 Landing Helicopter Dock Canberra 2015 HMAS Albany ACPB 86 Patrol boat Armidale 2006 HMAS Ararat ACPB 89 Patrol...
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    Southern Cross with HMAS Kiara in company sailed from Sydney on 29 June 1941 for Darwin by way of the Queensland ports of Brisbane, Gladstone, Townsville, Cairns...
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    HMCS (later HMAS) Protector was a large flat-iron gunboat commissioned and purchased by the South Australian government in 1884, for the purpose of defending...
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    Naval Events Year by Year, pg 236 Various. "Ship Histories (and subpages)". HMA Ship Histories. Sea Power Centre - Royal Australian Navy. Archived from the...
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    four Fremantles were located at HMAS Coonawarra, HMAS Cairns, and Fleet Base East, two at HMAS Stirling, and one at HMAS Cerberus. Also by 1984, all of...
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    board HMAS Gladstone and HMAS Darwin. Mayer completed training as an Air Intercept Controller and returned to sea in HMA ships Canberra and HMAS Sydney...
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    career. At one stage, HMAS Geraldton carried six Oerlikon cannons, a number later reduced to four. By comparison, the outfit of HMAS Junee consisted of a...
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    Bay-class frigate: HMAS Shoalhaven 2 River-class frigates: HMAS Burdekin and Diamantina 7 Bathurst-class corvettes: HMAS Bowen, Cairns, Gladstone, Maryborough...
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  • cargo on the merchant ship Gladstone Star on 29 July 1968. She was converted into a diving tender by Halvorsens, renamed HMAS Seal (DTV1001/Y298) and entered...
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    New South Wales, Neasham was converted into a diving tender and renamed HMAS Porpoise (DTV 1002/Y.280) on 13 June 1973. Porpoise was sold in 1989 to property...
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    including the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney with 805 and 817 Squadrons embarked, and its four escorts, the destroyer HMAS Tobruk, and frigates Shoalhaven...
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    attain flag rank. During the Second World War, he commanded the cruiser HMAS Sydney in the Mediterranean campaign. He led the Australian Naval Squadron...
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  • Dessaix HMS Fearless HMAS Havoc USS Hillary Clinton – aircraft carrier HMAS Ipswich USS Kandahar USS Kennebunkport USS Leyte Gulf HMAS Moreton Bay KRI Nuku...
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  • Chief of Naval Staff (1975–78) HMAS Sydney (1970) HMAS Supply (1967) HMAS Parramatta (1963) HMAS Queenborough (1961–62) HMAS Condamine (1954–55) Battles/wars...
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    budget shortfall led to the fall of the Liberal government led by William Gladstone. Childers was born in London, the son of Reverend Eardley Childers and...
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  • June 1966. She arrived in Sydney as deck cargo on board the freighter Gladstone Star on 3 September 1967. Although she was due to be converted into a...
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    to assist the Fijian people. Activated in December, the squadron boarded HMAS Adelaide on Christmas Eve. During this deployment, they reconstructed Galoa...
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    Primary Telopea Park School (for high school) Narrabundah College A History of HMAS Harman and its people: 1943–1993, by Lieutenant Annette Nelson, RAN, Canberra...
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  • establishments of the Royal Australian Navy. Fleet Command is headquartered at HMAS Kuttabul in Sydney, and is led by the Commander Australian Fleet (COMAUSFLT)...
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    RAN officer to reach a flag rank in the RAN. The Collins class submarine HMAS Farncomb is named in his honour. Harold Farncomb was born in North Sydney...
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    Commander Task Group 62.2 (CTG 62.2), the covering group, with his flag in HMAS Australia. TG 62.2 included three Australian and five American cruisers,...
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    executive officer of HMAS Hobart in September 1945. Advanced to captain in 1949, he successively commanded HMAS Shoalhaven and HMAS Warramunga before being...
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    DRYAD. His commands have included HMAS Tarakan, HMAS Torrens, and HMAS Brisbane. During his period in command of HMAS Brisbane, the ship deployed to the...
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