More than 200 people gathered at HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin to witness their decommissioning - among them, many veterans who ...

As the home port to one Armidale class patrol boat, two Cape class patrol boats, two Leeuwin class Hydrographic Survey Ships and two Paluma class Survey Motor Launches, the city also has a crucial ...

ROCKHAMPTON, Australia – Military training involving more than 35,000 troops from the United States, Australia and 17 other nations began Sunday with a ceremony aboard one of Australia’s largest ...

Royal Australian Navy Hobart class guided-missile destroyer HMAS Brisbane has returned to Fleet Base East in Sydney following a successful four-month ...

Leading the fledgling fleet was the battle cruiser HMAS Australia, the largest capital warship this country has had. But less than 11 years after entering Port Jackson, the former flagship was towed ...

The Australian Defence Force has given a rare look inside their HMAS ship and the new young faces leading the front line to protect the country. Around him a small team of crew are at their posts, ...

HMAS Encounter celebrated a fresh chapter in its long history with a base relocation and the handover of command from ...

Friends and family have lined the wharf in Cairns welcoming home their loved ones aboard HMAS Melville as it entered the inlet for its last time before decommissioning. The vessel made her final ...

HMAS Shepparton and HMAS Benalla have been decommissioned The Defence Strategic Review has accelerated their removal from active service The ships carried out survey work in northern Australian waters ...

On November 19, 1941, Denham residents looking west of Shark Bay watched a 500-metre-tall blast of fire thrust into the sky, far out at sea. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the HMAS Sydney's ...

Australia says it has identified the body of the only sailor recovered from a ship sunk during World War Two. Thomas Welsby Clark, 20, joined the HMAS Sydney just four months before it was ambushed by ...