The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS GAWLER, was commissioned at Cairns, QLD. ...
On This Day
Australian Naval History on 26 August 1983
In a small ceremony conducted in the small boats harbour at HMAS Stirling HMAS Adroit was turned over to the Commanding Officer of the Fremantle Port Division Commander Don Bantock, ...
Australian Naval History on 2 August 1983
HMAS GAWLER, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 July 1983
HMAS GAWLER, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 July 1983
RAN Fleet Air Arm Squadrons VF805, (Skyhawk fighter-bombers), and VS816 (Grumman Trackers), were disbanded. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 July 1983
Commander June Baker appointed as Executive Officer HMAS Penguin (the first woman to be appointed as a RAN Executive Officer—Second in Command. (*Actual day of month unknown) ...
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1983
Operational flying of jet aircraft in the RAN ceased. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 June 1983
HMAS Snipe decommissioned. Snipe remained in the Reserve Fleet until she was sold in 1985 to be broken up. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 June 1983
HMAS BENDIGO, (patrol boat), rescued the cross-Pacific rower Peter Bird, after his boat broke up off Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 June 1983
The personnel strength of the RAN was 17,198 officers and men. ...