On This Day - 10 March

2006
HMA Ships MANOORA, (landing platform amphibious, CMDR A. J. Rourke, RAN), WARRAMUNGA, (ANZAC class guided missile frigate, CMDR D. W. Jordan, RAN), and NORMAN, (mine countermeasures ship, LCDR T. J. Watson, RAN), along with personnel from the Clearance Diving Teams, supported Operation Acolyte, the ADF operation to provide security and support to the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
2004
The frigate HMAS STUART, (CMDR. P. Spedding, OAM, RAN), departed Sydney for service in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Catalyst. In keeping with tradition the ship, nicknamed the "Tartan Terror", had a lone piper play as she departed the wharf.
1994
VADM R.G. Taylor, AO, RAN, was appointed as Chief of Naval Staff.
1984
The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS DUBBO, was commissioned.
1970
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), operated on the destroyer screen of the USS KITTY HAWK, (aircraft carrier), during air strikes against North Vietnamese troops in Laos.
1967
HMAS BOONAROO departed Port Wilson, VIC, on her first and only voyage to South Vietnam. A general freighter of the Australian National Line (ANL) she had been commissioned nine days earlier.
1945
HMA ML 825 shot down a Japanese fighter off Cape Orford, New Guinea. HMAS LACHLAN, (frigate), surveyed the approaches to Mindanao, Philippines.
1942
The flotilla of 7 corvettes, HMA Ships MARYBOROUGH, GOULBURN, BURNIE, BALLARAT, TOOWOOMBA, WOLLONGONG, and BENDIGO, reached Fremantle, WA, from Tjilatjap.
1860
CDRE F. B. P. Seymour, CB, RN, was appointed Commodore Commanding the Australia Station, his flagship was HMS PELOROUS. Seymour was a fighting officer, leading the naval forces in the Maori Wars, and in July 1882 as ADML Sir Beauchamp Seymour; he commanded the British Fleet in the capture of Alexandria, Egypt.
Credit:
'On This Day' is based on the book "Navy Day by Day: Historic Naval Events in Australia and Abroad" written by the late Lew Lind. More information.

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