HMAS Australia, Sydney 1917

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

HMAS Brisbane calls at Yokosuka to receive maintenance by Japan for the first time

Share On September 19, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)’s Hobart-class guided-missile destroyer HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41) called at the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force’s (JMSDF) Yokosuka Naval Base. The Australian vessel is set to receive maintenance while in Japan. HMAS Brisbane will be the first active RAN vessel to receive maintenance by Japan for the first time, as TokyoContinue reading “HMAS Brisbane calls at Yokosuka to receive maintenance by Japan for the first time”