On this day in Royal Australian Navy History. 3 February 1941 The N class destroyer HMAS NESTOR, (CMDR G.S. Stewart, RAN), was commissioned at Fairfield Shipbuilding on the Clyde, Scotland. She was laid down in Fairfields in 1939, and launched on 9 July 1940. HMAS NAPIER, (destroyer), escorted HMS KING GEORGE V, (battleship), from the Faroe Islands to Greenock, Scotland. The British Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, was returning from a diplomatic visit to the USA in the battleship. 1942 Event #1 HMAS TOOWOOMBA, rescued the crew of the bombed merchant vessel LOCH RANZA in the Rhio Strait, Malaya. Event #2 The United States Navy transferred its submarine base from Darwin to Fremantle. Event #3 The Cruiser HMAS HOBART, (CAPT H. Howden, RAN) rescued 57 women and children from the sinking merchant ship NORAH MOLLER near Banka Island. The merchant ship had been attacked and set on fire by Japanese aircraft. The civilian survivors were off loaded at Tanjong Priok (Java) the following day. 1947 HMAS STUART, (destroyer), was sold out of service and broken up at Ryde, Sydney. 1954 HMAS AUSTRALIA, (cruiser), moored at Garden Island Naval Base, fired 1000 rockets to welcome Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, to Sydney. 1989 The Premier of WA, Mr. Peter Dowding, officially opened the ship-lift facility at Jervoise Bay. This site became the RANs repair base in the west.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:59:07 +0000
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