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Base Northern Territory: Darwin: 1970–present: Former Naval Wireless Transmitting Station, now a patrol boat base HMAS Creswell: Training facility Jervis Bay Territory: Jervis Bay: 1958–present: Location of the Royal Australian Naval College: HMAS Encounter (naval base) Administration South Australia: Adelaide: 1965–1994; 2022–present ...
The Australian Defence Force is made up of the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force. These three military services have numerous military bases situated in all the States and Territories of Australia. Most of Australian Defence Force bases are equipped with Everyman's Welfare Service recreation centres. [1]
Pages in category "Royal Australian Navy bases" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
HMAS Platypus, located in Neutral Bay on the northern side of Sydney Harbour, was the home base for the Royal Australian Navy Submarine Service and its fleet of six Oberon class submarines from 1967. It closed in 1999 when the submarine fleet moved to Fleet Base West to coincide with the introduction of new Collins class submarines.
Royal Australian Navy bases (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Australian Defence Force bases" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) [ 3 ] Vice Admiral Mark Hammond . The Chief of Navy is also jointly responsible to the Minister for Defence (MINDEF) and the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF).
HMAS Cairns is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base located adjacent to the Trinity Inlet on the shore of Trinity Bay in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.Although used regularly as a port-of-call since before World War II, a permanent RAN presence was not established until 1971, when a maintenance and support base for patrol boats was set up.
HMAS Waterhen is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base located in Waverton on Sydney's lower north shore, within Sydney Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia.Constructed on the site of a quarry used to expand Garden Island in the 1930s, the location was used during World War II as a boom net maintenance and storage area.