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    HMAS Melbourne (R21) was a Majestic-class light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1955 until 1982, and was the third and...
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  • named HMAS Melbourne, after Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria. HMAS Melbourne (1912), a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1912 HMAS Melbourne (R21)...
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  • "Last HMAS Voyager claim settled, 45 years on". The Age. Australia. Retrieved 30 July 2009. Websites Sea Power Centre. "HMAS Melbourne (II)". HMA Ship...
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    The Melbourne–Evans collision was a collision between the light aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and the destroyer USS Frank...
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    HMAS Melbourne was a Town class light cruiser operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The ship was laid down by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead in England...
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  • Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company HMAS Melbourne (1912), a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1912 HMAS Melbourne (R21), a Majestic-class light aircraft...
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    for casualties. At 9:58 pm, Melbourne was informed that search-and-rescue boats from HMAS Creswell, helicopters from HMAS Albatross (Naval Air Station...
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    HMAS Melbourne (FFG 05) was an Adelaide-class guided-missile frigate of the Royal Australian Navy, which entered service in 1992. Melbourne has been deployed...
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    training vessel following the 1955 arrival of her modernised sister ship, HMAS Melbourne, Sydney remained in service until 1958, when she was placed in reserve...
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  • retired aircraft carriers for study, namely, the British-built Australian HMAS Melbourne and the ex-Soviet carriers Minsk, Kiev and Varyag. The Varyag later...
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    Vietnam Campaign Medal Korean War Service Medal HMAS Voyager, Also sunk in a collision with HMAS Melbourne in 1964. "2,200-ton Destroyer, The Evans, Launched"...
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    as HMAS Sydney; and Majestic, which was upgraded for jet operations and commissioned in 1955 as HMAS Melbourne. While waiting for Majestic/Melbourne to...
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    Australian Navy (RAN) as a replacement for the delayed aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. She remained in Australian waters, operating as an aircraft carrier...
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    service the A-4Gs formed part of the air group of the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, and were primarily used to provide air defence for the fleet. They...
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    destroyer HMAS Voyager was cut in two by the bow of the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, killing 82 of the 293 men on board Voyager. Melbourne was conducting...
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    ship HMAS Swan were ordered in 1964 as replacements for HMAS Voyager, a destroyer lost following a collision with the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne in...
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    ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (Colossus class) Australia HMAS Sydney (Majestic class) HMAS Vengeance (Colossus class) HMAS Melbourne (Majestic class) Brazil Minas Gerais...
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  • Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Voyager. HMAS Voyager (D31) was a W-class destroyer. Commissioned into the Royal Navy...
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  • usage increased over time, particularly after 1982, when the carrier HMAS Melbourne was decommissioned and not replaced. In 2000, following the removal...
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    402 Frame, HMAS Sydney, p. 55 Frame, HMAS Sydney, pp. 56–68 Frame, HMAS Sydney, pp. 69–77 Winter, H.M.A.S. Sydney, pp. 123, 125 Frame, HMAS Sydney, pp...
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    HMAS Adelaide (L01) is the second of two Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and is the largest naval...
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    radio call sign VK2VMP. HMAS Vampire gallery HMAS Vampire underway in c1962 HMAS Vampire underway in the Red Sea in c1975 View of HMAS Vampire's two forward...
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    the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Sydney, after Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales. HMAS Sydney (1912), a Town-class light cruiser...
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  • Emerald Princess. In the 20th century, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne was sometimes said to be jinxed, having twice struck a friendly ship...
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    27 December 2019, it was announced that Australia had sold HMAS Newcastle and HMAS Melbourne to Chile. Both frigates were delivered to the Chilean Navy...
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    aircraft from 1967 to 1984. The type flew from the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and shore bases. A total of 32 Trackers were purchased in two batches...
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    HMAS Psyche, HMAS Fantome, HMAS Protector, HMAS Una. Town-class cruiser: HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Brisbane HM Australian Destroyer Flotilla 1914–1918: HMA Ships...
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  • USS%20Constitution%20as%20America's%20Ship%20of%20State. Hall, Timothy (1982). HMAS Melbourne. North Sydney, NSW: George Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-86861-284-7. OCLC 9753221...
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    was offered to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as a replacement for HMAS Melbourne. In 1968, Hermes took part in a combined exercise with the RAN, during...
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    history, even with the old Majestic-class light fleet carriers, HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Sydney in the 1970s. In 2004, French company Direction des Constructions...
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