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19 June 2013
Commanding Officer HMAS Sydney, Commander Karl Brinckmann on the port bridge wing of HMAS Sydney during officer of the watch manoeuvres in company with the US Navy destroyer, USS Momsen. Image: LSIS...
19 June 2013
The Royal Australian Navy is a step closer to being ‘Romeo ready’ after New Squadron 725 (NUSQN725) aircrew successfully reached an important milestone in their MH-60R Seahawk ‘Romeo’ helicopter...
17 June 2013
Commander Leif Maxfield has assumed command of HMAS Tobruk, relieving Commander Tim Watson while the ship stopped over in Townsville on 7 June 2013. Commander Maxfield will lead the ship as it sails...
17 June 2013
Feeding a ship’s company is no small task, but for the chefs of HMAS Tobruk the job has become a lot bigger. On top of the 180 members of Tobruk’s crew, the team are also feeding an additional 107...
17 June 2013
Exercise SEA LION 2013 got underway on June 10 as HMAS Choules slipped out to sea with a complement of more than 400 Army and Navy personnel onboard, and various pieces of equipment firmly secured on...
17 June 2013
HMAS Newcastle’s (CMDR Paul O’Grady, CSM) crew has cheered on their teams during the first rugby league State of Origin match of 2013 while on their first patrol in the MEAO. Origin day started as...
14 June 2013
“There is no one word that fully describes the experience,” said LS Susanne Peterson, who recently travelled with two other Navy women to Nepal to lend their hands to a project which builds homes for...
14 June 2013
HMAS Toowoomba has been welcomed home from a six month deployment to the Middle East Area of Operations today. Minister for Defence, the Honourable Stephen Smith MP, Shadow Minister for Defence and...
14 June 2013
Armidale Class Patrol Boat crew Ardent Three seized upon a rare opportunity this week to qualify for aviation operations. Embarked in HMAS Launceston, the crew were able to combine routine training...
14 June 2013
HMAS Tobruk has set sail for a seven week deployment to Papua New Guinea. On 3 June 2013, HMAS Tobruk departed Fleet Base East in Sydney with a large joint contingent of Australian and American...
13 June 2013
HMAS Newcastle rendezvoused with “Big Ike” the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Arabian Sea for a day of steaming in company on 2 June 2013. Joining the one hundred thousand-ton Nimitz-class carrier...
13 June 2013
HMAS Newcastle (CMDR P.J. O’Grady, CSM) has conducted her first port visit in the Middle East, to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. The 24-hour visit on 31 May marked multiple achievements...
13 June 2013
ADFA Midshipman Nam Nguyen has returned from the Global Voices Delegation to the Global Security Conference and Shangri-La Dialogue held on April 18-21 this year. Since returning MIDN Nguyen is now...
13 June 2013
HMAS Toowoomba will receive a warm welcome home when she sails into Fleet Base West, HMAS Stirling tomorrow, Friday, 14 June 2013 following her six month deployment to the Middle East Area of...
13 June 2013
HMAS Newcastle has conducted her first Replenishment at Sea (RAS) serial in the Middle East Area of Operations with RFA Fort Victoria on 29 May 2013. This RAS was the first such evolution in the MEAO...
11 June 2013
Australia’s HMAS Newcastle has provided medical treatment and evacuated two badly burned Filipino merchant seamen from a stricken oil tanker in the Somali Basin. The seamen from the Liberian...
9 June 2013
Operational deployment is usually about leaving family behind but this was not the case recently for two pairs of siblings onboard HMAS Newcastle. Amid the flurry of personnel and stores transfers as...
8 June 2013
Commanding Officer HMAS Sydney, Commander Karl Brinckmann, passes conning orders to the helm as HMAS Sydney manoeuvres from the wharf to depart Busan, Republic of Korea. HMAS Sydney will take...
7 June 2013
In January 2013, the doors closed on the HMAS Creswell (Royal Australian Naval College) Golf Club after 54 years of chips and putts, but the enthusiasm and generosity of the membership will have a...
7 June 2013
When a schoolboy from Reading, England by the name of Jonathan Bannister signed on the dotted line and left home to join the Royal Navy in September 1998, he couldn’t have dreamt that 15 years later...
6 June 2013
Being self-sufficient for months on end in a remote environment is the name of the game for doctors and medics serving in warships of the Royal Australian Navy. When it comes to facing and overcoming...
4 June 2013
RADM David Guy Holthouse AO RAN (RETD) The Royal Australian Navy is saddened to hear of the passing of Rear Admiral David Guy Holthouse on Friday, 31 May 2013. RADM Holthouse joined the RAN in...
4 June 2013
CMDR Ralph MacDonald AM RANR Navy is saddened to hear of the passing of Commander Ralph MacDonald on Saturday, 1 June 2013. CMDR MacDonald joined the RAN as a sailor in 1962 and received his...
31 May 2013
HMAS Toowoomba (II) is making her way home to Australia after handing over maritime security and interception operations for Operation SLIPPER in the Middle East Area of Operations to HMAS Newcastle...
31 May 2013
Member of the Catafalque Party, Able Seaman Marine Technician Jim Eckert, stands guard during the 71st anniversary of the attack on HMAS Kuttabul, Garden Island. Representatives from Japan, the...
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