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HMAS Adelaide II

The Grounding of HMAS Adelaide (II) FFG01

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2021 ·

By Phillip Hart with contribution from Greg Mapson This article is a personal recollection of the grounding of HMAS Adelaide that occurred nearly forty years ago. SBLT Phillip Hart was ...

Operation DAMASK: RAN Operations Against Iraq During The Gulf War

A.N. Other · Jun 22, 2016 ·

By SBLT Nathan Willrow, RAN Following completion of secondary education at Melbourne High School Nathan gained entry to the University of Melbourne where he graduated as a Bachelor of Science ...

Operation Damask: RAN Operations against Iraq 1990-2001

A.N. Other · Dec 13, 2013 ·

By Sub-Lieutenant D. A. L. Thomason, RAN  Danielle Thomason was born in Sydney and raised at Lake Macquarie. She attended Avondale College and attained a Bachelor of Business – Marketing ...

Operation ASTUTE: The RAN In East Timor

Periodical, Semaphore · Sep 5, 2008 ·

Operation ASTUTE, the ADF’s deployment of ‘troops to bring security, peace and confidence to the people of Timor-Leste,’ has been accompanied by the expected flood of media analysis. With some ...

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Australian Naval History on 19 January 2008

On This Day · Jan 19, 2008 ·

HMAS Adelaide II decommissioned ...

Search and Rescue: Miracle in the South, 1977

Periodical, Semaphore · Dec 4, 2007 ·

This article was first published in Semaphore, the newsletter of the Sea Power Centre – Australia, Issue 3 January, 2007. Safety fears for missing yachtie Bullimore is typical of the ...

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Letters: Adelaide’s Boarding Party

Letter Writer · Sep 4, 2007 ·

Dear Editor, Although I’m sure others will have already raised this, the one thing that the article about Adelaide‘s Boarding Party in the June issue failed to mention is that ...

HMAS Adelaide – Boarding Party, Persian Gulf 2004

Johnston, Anthony, DSM, Lieutenant Commander, RAN · Jun 4, 2007 ·

Because of the remote location of the Coalition’s naval forces in the Persian Gulf, very little news about their day to day activities is reported in the Australian media, apart ...

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Australian Naval History on 24 May 2006

On This Day · May 24, 2006 ·

HMAS Adelaide (II) entered Dili Harbour as one of the first units to arrive in the Area of Operations for Operation ASTUTE, the ADF’s response to the request for assistance ...

Australian Naval History on 30 July 2004

On This Day · Jul 30, 2004 ·

The guided missile frigate HMAS ADELAIDE, (CMDR B. R.Victor, RAN), departed from Fleet Base West to deploy to the Persian Gulf as part of the ADF contribution to Operation Catalyst. ...

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