HMAS Success and HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156)

HMAS Success (OR 304)

HMAS SuccessHMAS Success (OR 304) was a Durance-class multi-product replenishment oiler that previously served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company in Sydney, Australia, during the 1980s, she is the only ship of the class to be constructed outside France, and the only one to not originally serve inContinue reading “HMAS Success (OR 304)”

Australian carrier HMAS Melbourne (R21) moored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, July 1958

HMS Tyrian was a S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Between 1946 and 1951 Tyrian was held in reserve at Harwich. Between 1951 and 1952 she was converted to a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate, by Harland & Wolff at Liverpool.[3] She was also allocated the new pennant number F67. From August 1952 until 1956 she was part of the 2nd Training Squadron at Portland.Continue reading “HMS Tyrian was a S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War.”

HMS Lion, Malta