HMAS Darwin (FFG 04), named for the capital city of the Northern Territory, was an Adelaide-class guided-missile frigate, formerly in service with the...
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diary, Darwin Naval Base. – Version details – Trove". Trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 19 February 2014. Table based on AWM78: 400/2 Darwin Naval Base (HMAS MELVILLE):...
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HMAS Melbourne (R21) was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1955 until 1982, and was the third and...
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March 2010. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: HMAS Advance (P 83) (category) Patrol Boat: HMAS Advance – vessel page at the Australian National Maritime...
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HMAS Flinders (GS 312/A 312), named for Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), was a hydrographic survey ship of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by HMA...
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largest RAN deployment since World War II. HMAS Supply paid off on 16 December 1985, and was replaced by HMAS Success. Donohue, From Empire Defense to the...
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continued in this role until June 1982, when she was replaced by the patrol boat HMAS Ardent. In July, Bass relocated to HMAS Waterhen, to provide navigational...
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Northern Territory, which considered placing it in the Darwin Military Museum, but remained moored at HMAS Coonawarra until the NT government declined the offer...
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realised that the two main patrol boat bases, HMAS Cairns in Cairns, Queensland and HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin, Northern Territory, were not capable of supporting...
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22 August 1975, Vampire, sister ship HMAS Vendetta, and the supply ship HMAS Supply were prepositioned in Darwin following tensions between Indonesia...
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HMAS Sydney (FFG 03) was an Adelaide-class guided-missile frigate of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The frigate was one of six modified Oliver Hazard...
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sister ship HMAS Wollongong while the latter was docked in Sydney. Ipswich was decommissioned on 11 May 2007, in a joint ceremony with HMAS Townsville...
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Personnel (18 May 2017). "Ex-HMAS Sydney retires to Western Australia". Navy Daily (Press release). Retrieved 26 May 2017. "HMAS Darwin sails into port for the...
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2015. "HMAS Brisbane (II)". Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 24 March 2015. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMAS Brisbane (D 41). HMAS Brisbane...
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commissioned as HMAS Westralia on 9 October. Part of the A$30 million, five-year lease was covered by the decommissioning and sale of fleet tender HMAS Stalwart...
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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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of HMAS Sydney and was then appointed as commander, Sea Training. On promotion to captain, Shalders was posted at short notice to command HMAS Darwin during...
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1962 HMAS Vampire and HMAS Quickmatch made goodwill visits to Saigon. They were followed a year later by similar visits by HMAS Quiberon and HMAS Queenborough...
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HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen (1936) (redirect from HMAS Abraham Crijnssen)
Australia in 1942, she was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as HMAS Abraham Crijnssen and operated as an anti-submarine escort. Although returned...
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the RAN. Shore postings have included HMAS Albatross (Nowra), HMAS Coonawarra (Darwin), HMAS Harman (Canberra), HMAS Cerberus (Western Port Bay), ADF Recruiting...
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"Homecoming for HMAS Tobruk" (Press release). Department of Defence. 19 August 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2009. "HMAS Tobruk and HMAS Brunei assist AACAP"...
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with HMAS Adelaide Australian Associated Press, Greenies try to scuttle plans to sink HMAS Adelaide Australian Associated Press, Decommissioned HMAS Adelaide...
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his family left Darwin soon afterwards under the protection of HMAS Encounter, while the Vestey company permanently closed its Darwin operations in 1920...
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HMAS Geelong (FCPB 215), named for the city of Geelong, was a Fremantle-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Starting in the late 1960s...
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in 1982 and completed in December 1983. Quokka spent most of her RAN career at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia, except for a brief stint in Darwin, and...
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HMAS Gawler (FCPB 212), named for the town of Gawler, South Australia was a Fremantle-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Starting in...
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HMAS Queenborough (G70/D270/F02/57) (originally HMS Queenborough (G70/D19)) was a Q-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian...
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Melbourne–Voyager collision (redirect from HMAS Voyager-HMAS Melbourne collision)
of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN); the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and the destroyer HMAS Voyager. On the evening of 10 February 1964, the two ships...
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Australian Navy 146-ton patrol boat HMAS Arrow (P 88) was launched on 17 February 1968 and was wrecked on 25 December 1974 at Darwin, Australia during Cyclone Tracy...
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HMAS Perth (D 38) was the lead ship of the Perth-class guided missile destroyers operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built in the United States...
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