Tag: Royal Australian Navy

As the international community frets that sanctions against North Korea are not working, Australia deploys frigate Warramunga.

Crews of two Australian ships commended for their quick action that saw aircrew quickly rescued with only minor injuries.

RAN’s three Hobart-class destroyers have reached final operational capability after the third ship completed successful tests off North America.

Decommissioning of the first of the Armidale-class patrol boats clears the way for introduction of new Arafura patrol vessel fleet from 2022.

Royal Australian Navy requires more resources in the Indo-Pacific region as China engages in sabre-rattling.

First female commander for Aussie task force in annual exercise involving the warships of 11 regional partner nations.

Family has campaigned for 30 years for Teddy Sheean’s exceptional bravery and ultimate sacrifice to be recognised with highest honour.

Australia toughens its stance on Chinese aspirations in the South China Sea in declaration made to the UN.

Significant blow to drug trafficking network by British and Australian navies.

Indonesia has warned Australia over a series of breaches of its territorial waters and demanded the government stop turning boats back.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems to have toned down his tough talk on the asylum-seeker issue after meeting the Indonesian president.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he wants to get Australia’s relationship with Indonesia right, but the opposition believes there’s a big problem.

A boat bound for Australia, carrying 120 asylum seekers sinks off the coast of Indonesia, leaving 20 dead, mostly children.

For only the second time in the past six years, the Australian Navy intercepted a boat and handed the asylum seekers back to Indonesia.

Prince Harry will make his first official visit to Australia in October to attend events marking the centenary of the first entry of the Royal Australian Navy’s Fleet into Sydney in 1913.

New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell has been involved in a tense altercation with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the campaign trail today over Labor's plans to move a major naval base from Sydney to Brisbane.

Four people died yesterday when a boat carrying 150 asylum seekers capsized off the coast of Christmas Island.

The Australian High Commissioner to the UK, Mike Rann, laid a wreath yesterday in London to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic. Mr Rann told attendees the Allied forces would have lost World War II had they had not achieved victory in the six year-long naval ...