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HMAS Sydney (R17/A214/P214/L134) was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was built for the Royal Navy and was launched as HMS Terrible (93) in 1944, but was not completed before the end of World War II.
HMAS Sydney (D48), a Leander-class light cruiser launched in 1934, and sunk following a battle with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran on 19 November 1941 HMAS Sydney (R17) , a Majestic -class light aircraft carrier launched in 1944, decommissioned in 1973, and broken up for scrap
The Wessex helicopters were embarked on board the aircraft carriers HMAS Sydney and HMAS Melbourne. Also the replenishment oiler HMAS Success, and the escort maintenance ship HMAS Stalwart. N16 Westland Sea King: Sea King Mk 50 Sea King Mk 50A Sea King Mk 50B: United Kingdom: Carrier-borne anti-submarine, search and rescue, utility transport ...
The "HMAS Sydney Replacement Fund" was established to help finance the acquisition of a replacement ship. [211] The AU£426,000 raised was contributed to the purchase of Australia's first aircraft carrier in the late 1940s; the Majestic-class carrier was named HMAS Sydney upon her commissioning into the RAN in December 1948. [211]
The impact of carrier aviation during the war prompted the foundation of a RAN-controlled Fleet Air Arm and the acquisition of two light fleet carriers, with the first, HMAS Sydney, entering service in 1948. Sydney was the only non-US, non-UK aircraft carrier to be involved
Light fleet carriers: HMAS Sydney: Majestic class carrier in service from 1948 to 1958. Later recommissioned as troop transport; HMAS Melbourne: Majestic class carrier in service from 1955 to 1982; HMAS Vengeance: Colossus class light carrier on loan from Royal Navy from 1952 to 1955
The HMAS Sydney conducted the test near the U.S. state of Hawaii as part of the Pacific Dragon 2024 exercise, Australia's defence ministry said, calling it a "significant milestone" in a deal ...
A Hawker Sea Fury on the flight deck of the carrier HMAS Sydney, during the ship's 1949 flight trials. During the 1920s, the RAN attempted to acquire government support for an Australian Fleet Air Arm, modelled loosely on the Royal Naval Air Service and its Royal Air Force-controlled successor, the Fleet Air Arm. [2]