Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Remnants of Labuan's history as a Royal Navy coaling station include the chimney, a well known local landmark. Labuan also contains a Labuan Maritime Museum. Labuan is also the base for diving on four popular wreck dives: the Cement wreck, the American wreck (the first USS Salute), the Australian wreck and the Blue Water wreck. [54]
No. 14 Squadron RNZAF (Canberra B(I)12) based RAF Tengah (1964–66) with deployments to RAF Labuan (1964), RAAF Butterworth (1965), RAF Gong Kedah (1965) [3] No. 41 Squadron RNZAF (Bristol Freighter) based RAF Changi with detachments to RAF Kuching throughout the period of Confrontation [4] Royal New Zealand Navy. HMNZS Royalist [5] HMNZS Otago
The hoisting of British flag for the first time on Labuan on 24 December 1846 following its foundation as a Crown colony. Since 1841, when James Brooke had successfully established a solid presence in northwestern Borneo with the establishment of the Raj of Sarawak and began to assist in the suppression of piracy along the island coast, he had persistently promoted the island of Labuan to the ...
For local administration, the colony was divided into four residencies overseen by a resident, which were sub-divided into districts overseen by district officers. The district officer for the island of Labuan reported directly to the Chief Secretary. The districts were sub-divided into sub-districts overseen by assistant district officers.
The Labuan Corporation, or Perbadanan Labuan (PL), is a local authority that administers the Federal Territory of Labuan, Malaysia.The agency falls under the Department of Federal Territories of Malaysia.
Labuan had belonged to Brunei since the reign of the first Sultan of Brunei, Muhammad Shah. The island, previously uninhabited, was used by Malay and Chinese merchants and traders to shelter their ships from storms. Labuan was important economically for Brunei as it was regarded as the Sultanate's gateway to the outside world.
It was advised that, in order to accomplish these goals, the British North Borneo (Chartered) Company's 1881-founded management should be dissolved and taken over by the British Government following payment of compensation to the company. The new Administration for North Borneo was to include the British Settlement of Labuan.
The Battle of Labuan was an engagement fought between Allied and Imperial Japanese forces on the island of Labuan off Borneo during June 1945. It formed part of the Australian invasion of North Borneo , and was initiated by the Allied forces as part of a plan to capture the Brunei Bay area and develop it into a base to support future offensives.