HMAS Sydney was a Chatham-class light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Laid down in 1911 and launched in 1912, the cruiser was commissioned...
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been named HMAS Sydney, after Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales. HMAS Sydney (1912), a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1912, decommissioned...
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Australia. "HMAS Melbourne (I)". Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 31 October 2014. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMAS Melbourne (1912). Bastock...
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Royal Navy officer best known for captaining the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney during the Battle of Cocos in which the German cruiser SMS Emden was...
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battle-cruiser HMAS Australia (I) was also laid in 1910, followed by the Chattam-Class cruisers HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Sydney in 1912. Parramatta found...
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113 "HMAS Pioneer: Australian War Memorial". awm.gov.au. Retrieved 2 July 2010. "Current News: Discovery of the Light Cruiser HMAS Pioneer off Sydney". NSWwrecks...
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renamed HMAS Medea until she was returned to her owners in 1946. She was sold and was scuttled off Sydney on 20 January 1948. Built in 1912 by Taikoo...
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Garden Island (New South Wales) (redirect from HMAS Kattabul, New South Wales)
ridgeline is HMAS Kuttabul, the RAN's major administrative, training and logistics support establishment for the Sydney area. Although HMAS Kuttabul is...
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Indomitable (1907) SS Balmoral Castle (1910) HMS New Zealand (1911) HMAS Sydney (1912) RMS Empress of Russia (1913) RMS Empress of Asia (1913) SS Calgarian...
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were reinforced first by sailors from HMAS Warrego and HMAS Yarra and later by infantry from the transport HMAS Berrima. A small 25-man force of naval...
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HMAS Encounter was a second-class protected cruiser of the Challenger class operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built...
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for a charter operation based in Sydney, Australia HMAS Canberra (D33), a County-class cruiser launched in 1927 HMAS Canberra (FFG 02), an Adelaide-class...
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the crews of HMAS Protector and HMAS Psyche at the SCG. The Sydney Morning Herald lauded his efforts. Murray went on to umpire in Sydney until 1924 including...
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Garden Island Naval Precinct (redirect from Sydney Harbour Naval Precinct)
light cruisers HMAS Sydney, HMAS Melbourne and the aging HMAS Encounter, the torpedo boat destroyers HMAS Parramatta, HMAS Warrego and HMAS Yarra, and the...
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Australia came from the decommissioned World War I cruisers HMAS Sydney, HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Brisbane and were emplaced in northern Australia and Torres...
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HMAS AE2 (originally known as AE2) was an E-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of two submarines ordered for the fledgling navy, AE2...
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Eskimo 7th Destroyer Flotilla: (1912–1944) – 1941 British Eastern Fleet HMAS Norman, HMAS Napier, HMAS Nestor and HMAS Nizam. 8th Destroyer Flotilla: 1939...
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Joseph Burnett (category Military personnel from Sydney)
most widely known as the captain of the light cruiser HMAS Sydney in the battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran on 19 November 1941. He fought in both...
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include: HMAS Adelaide, Town-class cruiser HMAS Albatross, seaplane tender HMAS Arunta, Tribal-class destroyer HMAS Barcoo, River-class frigate HMAS Bataan...
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Navy Majestic-class aircraft carriers then under construction (HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Sydney) to build up a Fleet Air Arm. In the 1960s, the RAN began to...
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Battle of Cocos (section HMAS Sydney)
soldiers departed from Albany, Western Australia, with escorts HMAS Melbourne, HMAS Sydney, HMS Minotaur, and the Japanese battlecruiser Ibuki. During the...
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HMAS Tingira was a training ship operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1911 and 1927. Alexander Hall & Co. built the ship in Scotland in...
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Society. HMAS Melbourne (1913-1928), Australian War Memorial. "THE COMMONWEALTH BANK". The Cairns Post. Qld.: National Library of Australia. 16 July 1912. p...
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Quakers Hill, New South Wales (category Suburbs of Sydney)
1960s, Sydney's suburban sprawl reached the Quakers Hill area and the five acre farms surrounding the village began to be subdivided. In 1994, HMAS Nirimba...
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Navy 1939 as HMAS Perth – torpedoed 1942 Apollo (1936) – to RAN 1938 as HMAS Hobart; sold 1962 Phaeton (1935) – to RAN 1935 as HMAS Sydney – sunk 1941...
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HMAS Warrego, named for the Warrego River, was a River-class torpedo-boat destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Ordered in 1909, construction of...
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Navy in 1942 and renamed HMAS Mercedes until she was returned to her owners in 1946. She was sold and was scuttled off Sydney on 23 January 1948. Built...
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George Johnston (novelist) (category 1912 births)
the Seaways: From the Athenia to the Bismarck (1941) Grey Gladiator: H.M.A.S. Sydney with the British Mediterranean Fleet (1941) Australia at War (1942)...
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HMAS Gunbar (GN) was an auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II. Gunbar was built by Ardrossan Drydock &...
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USS Proteus (AC-9) (category 1912 ships)
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and launched on 14 September 1912. She was the lead ship of her class of four colliers. She was commissioned...
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