On This Day
1946-1959 > Post WW2
On This Day - 1946-1959
- February 10, 1956
HMAS Swan recommissioned for service as a Cadet Training Ship. She was reclassified as a frigate and also fitted to operate as a survey ship.
- January 31, 1956
HMAS Murchison paid off into Reserve. Since commissioning the ship had steamed 175,712 miles. Without being again brought into seagoing service, Murchison was sold for breaking up to the Tolo Mining & Smelting Co Ltd of Hong Kong on 21 September 1961. However the vessel was resold to the Japanese firm Amakasu Sangyo Kisen Co Ltd. She remained at a Navy mooring in Sydney Harbour until 7 September 1962. During that month Murchison and her sister ship Hawkesbury (I), also purchased by the same Japanese firm, were towed out of Sydney Harbour on their way to be scrapped
- January 17, 1956
HMS NAPIER, (destroyer), formerly HMAS NAPIER, was paid off for disposal.
- January 16, 1956
HMS NEPAL, formerly HMAS NEPAL, (destroyer), was paid off for disposal.
- January 14, 1956
HMAS Glenelg paid off into Reserve at Fremantle. On 2 May 1957 Glenelg was sold for breaking up to Hong Kong Rolling Mills Ltd of Hong Kong
- December 19, 1955
HMAS Shoalhaven paid off into Reserve at Sydney. A year later, on 20 December 1956, the ship was accepted into extended Reserve. Without being brought forward for further service, Shoalhaven was sold in January 1962 to HC Sleigh & Company, acting on behalf of Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd.
- December 15, 1955
HMAS Kangaroo paid off at Sydney and was later classified as a Net Laying Ship in reserve at Sydney and also served as an accommodation ship for Base staff. On 28 August 1967 Kangaroo was sold to Hurley and Dewhurst Pty Ltd, Sydney. The ship was broken up for scrap in 1968.
- December 6, 1955
The first aircraft landed on HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier). It was a Westland Whirlwind helicopter.
- December 2, 1955
HMAS Condamine paid off into Reserve at Sydney. Condamine was sold on 21 September 1961 to the Tolo Mining and Smelting Co Ltd of Hong Kong
- November 16, 1955
HMS NIZAM, (destroyer, ex-HMAS NIZAM), was paid off for breaking up.