Kookaburra2011: Aug 9, 2017: to be commissioned in September, the first of the RAN's new AWDs, HOBART III, approaches Sydney Harbour for the first time - LSIS Tom Gibson.
Kookaburra2011: Ca 1760s: HMS ALBION [I] in English Harbour, Antigua - Harold Wylie, OBE.
Kookaburra2011: May 20, 1949. Newly-arrived HMAS SYDNEY at Port Melbourne with heavy cruiser HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] berthed opposite - RAN.
Kookaburra2011: Mar. 5, 1953, HMAS VENGEANCE arrives in Melbourne on her delivery voyage - credited W.G. Lyall
Kookaburra2011: Jan. 1846: steam paddle sloop HMS DRIVER enters Port Jackson on an historic voyage - artist unknown, Mitchell Library.
Kookaburra2011: Ca. March 2016. LHD HMAS ADELAIDE [III] on the cruise ship wharf in Townsville - Michael Chambers, DoD.
Kookaburra2011: Ca May 23, 2015: Another view of AWD HOBART [III] at the fitting out wharf, ASC Osborne, South Australia - RAN.
Kookaburra2011: May 23, 2015: HOBART [III], first of the RAN's new Air Warfare Destroyers, is launched at the ASC yards at Osborne, South Australia - ASC.
Kookaburra2011: April 17, 1951: HMAS BATAAN escorts her USN namesake USS BATAAN off the coast of Korea - US NHC.
Kookaburra2011: Nov. 1956 Melbourne Olympics: HMAS WARRAMUNGA [I] at the centre of the sailing competition - HWT.
Kookaburra2011: Nov. 26, 1956 Melbourne Olympics: first 5.5m Class heat seen from HMAS WARRAMUNGA [I] - HWT.
Kookaburra2011: Nov. 1956 Melbourne Olympics: HMAS SWAN [II] and the Star Class competition - HWT.
Kookaburra2011: Nov. 26, 1956, Melbourne Olympics: training sloop HMAS SWAN [II] presides over 12sq m Sharpies Class sailing competition - HWT.
Kookaburra2011: Ca 1940: Auxiliary minesweeper HMAS BONTHORPE passes troopship QUEEN MARY and oiler HMAS KURUMBA off Western Australia - Graeme Andrews Collection.
Kookaburra2011: Ca 1963-68: the former HMAS AIR FAITH search and rescue boat and RAAF stores lighters in Neutral Bay - RAN.
Kookaburra2011: 1915-1917: members of the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Team [RANBT], the first ashore at Suvla Bay - RAN.
Kookaburra2011: April 25, 1915: on the beach at Anzac Cove, at Gallipoli, a photed post 100 years after this iconic event in Australian military history - AWM.
Kookaburra2011: Sept. 11, 1914: Naval reservists rest after the battle of Bita Paka, near Rabaul - ABC photo.
Kookaburra2011: Ca. 1904-1914: Adelaide Steamship's coastal steamer GRANTALA, which became the RAN's first and only hospital ship of WWI - RAN Heritage Collection.
Kookaburra2011: 1915: a century ago, in the year of Anzac, the world - and Brisbane, as seen here that year, looked rather different - Robert Vere Scott, SLQld.
Kookaburra2011: April 2015: HMAS ANZAC [III] anchored in the Dardanelles near Canakkale for the Gallipoli landings centenary - LSIS Paul MacCallum, RAN.
Kookaburra2011: Mar. 15, 1950: HMAS SYDNEY [III] leads a fleet entry into Auckland after combined RAN and RNZN exercises - Whites Aviation, ATL.
Kookaburra2011: Ca. Mar. 1953: Carrier HMAS SYDNEY [III] joins HMNZS BLACK PRINCE at Port Melbourne for their Queen Elizabeth {II] Coronation voyage - HWT Coll. SLV.
Kookaburra2011: 1914-2014: commemorative stamps marking the centenary of the SYDNEY-EMDEN engagement off the Cocos [Keeling] Islands, Nov. 9, 1914.
Kookaburra2011: 1914-2014 Australia Post and Royal Australian Mint cover marking the Centenary of the SYDNEY-EMDEN battle. HMAS SYDNEY [I]. SMS EMDEN.
Kookaburra2011: 1914-2014 Australia Post and Royal Australian Mint cover marking the Centenary of the SYDNEY-EMDEN battle. HMAS SYDNEY [I].
Kookaburra2011: Ca. 1942: the redoubtable 'China Fleet' tender and stores ship HMAS PING WO, possibly at Port Stephens, NSW - RAN.
Kookaburra2011: 1950: Battle Class destroyer HMAS TOBRUK [I] on trials off Sydney - Sydney Morning Herald, SLV.
Kookaburra2011: Ca. 1937: Seagull V A2-9 is launched from HMAS CANBERRA [I] at Jervis Bay - SLV.
Kookaburra2011: Ca. 1937: a Seagull V about to be launched from HMAS CANBERRA [I] in Jervis Bay - SLV.