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==Service==
 
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Commissioned at Clydebank on 24 April, 1928.{{NLJul31|p. 292}}
 
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==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Hugh Walter Goolden|nick=Francis H. W. Goolden|appt=24 April, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 292}}|end=c. mid-May, 1929{{INF}}|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Hugh Walter Goolden|nick=Francis H. W. Goolden|appt=24 April, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 292}}|end=c. mid-May, 1929{{INF}}|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Scott Chalmers|nick=William S. Chalmers|appt=17 May, 1929{{NLJul31|p. 292}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Scott Chalmers|nick=William S. Chalmers|appt=17 May, 1929{{NLJul31|p. 292}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederic Cyril Bradley|nick=Frederic C. Bradley|appt=27 September, 1931{{NLJan33|p. 295}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Acheson Forster|nick=Herbert A. Forster|appt=1 April, 1935|end=30 May, 1937{{FC}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Acheson Forster|nick=Herbert A. Forster|appt=1 April, 1935|end=30 May, 1937{{FC}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Ross Stewart|nick=Robert R. Stewart|appt=29 August, 1939<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-australia-ii Royal Australian Navy webpage on ''Australia''].</ref>|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Ross Stewart|nick=Robert R. Stewart|appt=29 August, 1939<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-australia-ii Royal Australian Navy webpage on ''Australia''].</ref>|end=}}

Revision as of 07:22, 23 April 2018

H.M.A.S. Australia (1927)
Builder: John Brown & Company[1]
Laid down: 26 Aug, 1925[2]
Launched: 17 Mar, 1927[3]
Commissioned: 24 Apr, 1928[4]
Broken up: 1955[5]
H.M.A.S. Australia was one of seven Kent Class cruisers completed in the late 1920s. She served in the Royal Australian Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Clydebank on 24 April, 1928.[6]

She was re-commissioned on 1 January, 1932.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 292.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 292.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 295.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 292.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 292.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 295.
  11. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.
  12. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Dechaineux.
  13. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.
  14. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.

Bibliography


Kent Class Heavy Cruiser
Royal Navy
Berwick Cornwall Cumberland Kent Suffolk
Royal Australian Navy
  Australia Canberra  
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