Captain Joseph Burnett was a product of an era in the Royal Australian Navy which is now legendary. A first entry to the Royal Australian Naval College, he obtained colours ...
HMAS Adelaide I
Australian Naval History on 24 January 1949
The hulk of HMAS Adelaide was sold to Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd, her gear and equipment having been sold in 1947. On 1-2 April 1949 the hulk was ...
Australian Naval History on 13 May 1946
HMAS Platypus paid off into Reserve at Sydney. She was sold on 20 February 1958 to Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Ltd, of Tokyo, Japan, for scrap. In June 1958 the Japanese ...
Australian Naval History on 26 February 1946
HMAS ADELAIDE, (light cruiser), was paid off for breaking up. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 May 1945
HMAS Adelaide recommissioned as a tender to the Sydney shore establishment HMAS Penguin. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 February 1945
HMAS SWAN engaged enemy troop concentrations in the Wewak-Aitape area of New Guinea with gunfire. HMAS Adelaide (I) paid off in Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 November 1942
HMAS ADELAIDE, (cruiser), intercepted the German blockade runner RAMSES in the Indian Ocean. RAMSES was sunk by gunfire, and 88 survivors, plus a dog and a pig, were picked up. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 February 1942
HMAS WARRNAMBOOL rescued 40 survivors from the bombed merchant vessel FLORENCE D and the crew of a downed Catalina flying boat from Bathurst Island. The veteran cruiser HMAS ADELAIDE, rendezvoused ...
Australian Naval History on 19 September 1940
HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), sighted three Vichy French cruisers, 250 miles south of Dakar, and shadowed them north. The cruiser HMAS ADELAIDE, (CAPT H. A. Showers), escorted the Norwegian tanker NORDEN, ...
Australian Naval History on 7 September 1940
HMAS ADELAIDE, (cruiser), arrived at Vila to install De Gaullist M. Sautot as French Commissioner of the New Hebrides. Vila was in the hands of Vichy sympathisers, and ADELAIDE stood ...