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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Simon Fraser Macleod|nick=William S. F. Macleod|appt=1 June, 1933{{NLJul34|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=Hubert Guy Dyke Acland, Fourth Baronet|nick=Hubert G. D. Acland|appt=5 April, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 295}}|end=1938}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Hubert Guy Dyke Acland, Fourth Baronet|nick=Hubert G. D. Acland|appt=5 April, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 295}}|end=1938}}

Revision as of 10:40, 25 September 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

Australia was commissioned at Clydebank on 24 April, 1928.[6]

She was re-commissioned at Sydney 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. (July, 1937). 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. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 295.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 295.
  13. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.
  14. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Dechaineux.
  15. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.
  16. ↑ Royal Australian Navy webpage on Australia.

Bibliography


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