No member of the Royal Australian Navy who served in wartime could show as much appreciation of their captain as did the crew, officers and ratings of the three Amphion ...
HMAS Hobart II
Australian Naval History on 26 December 1974
Operation Navy Help, to assist with the clean up and re-establishment of services in the shattered city of Darwin, commenced. The first RAN asset to arrive was an HS748 aircraft, ...
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1973
UPI and AP issued a press release quoting: General Brown, US Air Force Chief-of-Staff; ‘Early in the summer of 1968 near the Demilitarised Zone, [Vietnam], there was a series of ...
Australian Naval History on 22 September 1970
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), ended her third deployment in Vietnam, by providing gunfire support to the Australian Task Force in the Long Hai hills. HOBART fired 16,901 rounds in ...
Australian Naval History on 25 July 1970
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), was Naval Gunfire Ship for operations by the US II Corps in Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 July 1970
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), carried out a night bombardment of a concentration of 400 Viet Cong troops on the border of U Minh, Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 6 June 1970
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), engaged various targets with her 5 inch guns, while serving on the gun-line in Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 May 1970
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), supported the 1st Australian Task Force in its advance in the Long Hai hills, Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 April 1970
An international fleet of 48 vessels from 10 nations visited Sydney for the Bicentenary of CAPT James Cook’s landing. Six of the ships were sail-training vessels:NIPPON MARU, (Japan), LIBERTAD, (Argentina), ...
Australian Naval History on 9 January 1970
The following awards were announced for service in Vietnamese waters:-BEM CPO H. E. Frey, (HMAS PERTH)MID CAPT A. A. Willis, (HMAS HOBART)MID LCDR R. G. Taylor, (HMAS HOBART)LCDR Taylor later ...