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    The Garden Island Naval Chapel is a heritage-listed non-denominational Christian chapel located in the heritage-listed Garden Island Naval Precinct that...
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  • Garden Island may refer to: Garden Island (New South Wales), location of major naval and dockyard facilities on Sydney Harbour Garden Island Naval Chapel...
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    Today, Garden Island forms a major part of the RAN's Fleet Base East. It includes active dockyards (including the Captain Cook Graving Dock), naval wharves...
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    The Garden Island Naval Precinct is a heritage-listed naval base and defence precinct located at Cowper Wharf Roadway in the inner eastern Sydney neighbourhood...
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    docked at Garden Island during a Japanese midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour in 1942. Garden Island itself has been host to a naval base since...
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  • feasibility study into the use of Garden Island as a naval base was begun. The 4.3 km (2.7 mi) causeway linking the island with the mainland was completed...
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    stained-glass window at the Garden Island Naval Chapel. One of the ship's anchors is incorporated into a memorial to naval aviation at Nowra, New South...
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  • the Birdon Group in Port Macquarie. The vessel was designed by Dykstra Naval Architects as a barquentine rig, utilising square-rigged sails on the foremast...
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    The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) Vice...
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  • Lürssen OPV80 design, and is being constructed by ASC Pty Ltd at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in Osborne, South Australia. It was planned that the ship would...
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    established as the Balmoral Naval Depot and was also known as Penguin II in 1941 as a depot for the RAN's main naval base at Garden Island (on Sydney Harbour)...
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    logistics ships. Two ships each were ordered from Swan Hunter and BAE Systems Naval Ships. Construction work started in 2002, but saw major delays and cost...
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    the RAN from July 2015 to the end of 2016 to supplement naval patrol boat availability. In naval service, the patrol boats are crewed by RAN personnel,...
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  • upgrades include the integration of the SM-6 and the acquisition of the Naval Strike Missile as a replacement of the RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile...
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  • Admiral Garden Island Naval Chapel Royal Australian Navy Tridents Rugby League Team Former entities Department of the Navy Women's Royal Australian Naval Service...
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  • shore bases (as Australia follows the British tradition of referring to naval establishments as stone frigates).[citation needed] By the early 21st century...
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    Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Originally named Cerberus III, the Naval Reserve Base was commissioned as HMAS Lonsdale on 1 August 1940 during World...
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    Pacific Ocean. Confusingly, naval personnel often use the term Fleet Base East to mean the naval wharves at Garden Island where ships assigned to the...
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    the hull. Two Cape-class patrol boats have been chartered to supplement naval patrol boat availability during the refit cycle, and plans to replace the...
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  • Manus Naval Base on December 28, 1944 Manus Naval Base Chapel. Chapel dedication services on Easter morning, April 1, 1945 Map Admiralty Islands operations...
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    2005 and Adelaide in 2008. Modification of each ship took place at Garden Island Dockyard, with Australian Defence Industries (ADI, now Thales Australia)...
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    and Commonwealth Naval Force. In 1911, the government established the Royal Australian Navy, which absorbed the Commonwealth Naval Force. The Army established...
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    HMAS Canberra (L02) (category Naval ships of Australia)
    Direction des Constructions Navales. Canberra has the same physical dimensions as Juan Carlos I, but differs in the design of the island superstructure and the...
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    completed a major maintenance period in the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island during which the propulsion pods were replaced including new 4 bladed...
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  • Thumbnail for HMAS Cairns (naval base)
    Cairns is currently responsible for all Australian naval activity from Rockhampton to Thursday Island and serves as a home base for four Cape class patrol...
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  • Lürssen OPV80 design, and is being constructed by ASC Pty Ltd at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in Osborne, South Australia. "Saab Receives Order For Australian...
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    replace the Harpoon Anti-ship missiles with the Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) by 2024. The Naval strike missile can be used against both land and sea...
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    the same name, is commemorated by a stained-glass window at the Garden Island Naval Chapel, and by the mast of the first Sydney at Bradleys Head, New South...
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  • Port Darwin had been used as a coaling station for naval ships, but it was not considered a naval base. Later, during the 1930s, the RAN constructed oil...
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  • Admiral Garden Island Naval Chapel Royal Australian Navy Tridents Rugby League Team Former entities Department of the Navy Women's Royal Australian Naval Service...
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