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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Hugh Walter Goolden|nick=Francis H. W. Goolden|appt=24 April, 1928<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-australia-ii Royal Australian Navy webpage on ''Australia''].</ref>|end=|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Hugh Walter Goolden|nick=Francis H. W. Goolden|appt=24 April, 1928<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-australia-ii Royal Australian Navy webpage on ''Australia''].</ref>|end=|precBy=New Command}}
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{{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=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptAU}}|name=Emile Frank Verlaine Dechaineux|nick=Emile F. V. Dechaineux|appt=9 March, 1944<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/biography/captain-emile-frank-verlaine-dechaineux Royal Australian Navy webpage on Dechaineux].</ref>|end=21 October, 1944<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-australia-ii Royal Australian Navy webpage on ''Australia''].</ref>|note=killed when in command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptAU}}|name=Emile Frank Verlaine Dechaineux|nick=Emile F. V. Dechaineux|appt=9 March, 1944<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/biography/captain-emile-frank-verlaine-dechaineux Royal Australian Navy webpage on Dechaineux].</ref>|end=21 October, 1944<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-australia-ii Royal Australian Navy webpage on ''Australia''].</ref>|note=killed when in command}}

Revision as of 16:15, 24 August 2017

H.M.A.S. Australia (1927)
Builder: John Brown[1]
Laid down: 26 Aug, 1925[2]
Launched: 17 Mar, 1927[3]
Completed: 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

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. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  6. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.
  7. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.
  8. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Dechaineux.
  9. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.
  10. ↑ 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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