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On 1 April 1953, the Royal Australian Naval Air Repair Yard Schofields was commissioned as HMAS Nirimba, a joint RANARY and technical training establishment for RAN Fleet Air Arm. The Aircraft Repair Yard was short lived however, and was closed down in early 1955 and HMAS Nirimba and the airfield were reduced to "Care and Maintenance" status. [2]
HMAS Nirimba: Naval air station Training facility New South Wales Quakers Hill: 1953–1955; 1956–1994 Now a campus of the Western Sydney University (2007)
Nirimba Fields was the site of the former RAAF Schofields Aerodrome. The Nirimba Education Precinct, including Wyndham College is located south of the Schofields Aerodrome site. The precinct was redeveloped in 1995 from the former HMAS Nirimba base, which was commissioned by the Royal Australian Navy in 1953 and used until 1994. [2]
HMAS Nirimba, a former Royal Australian Navy training base in Schofields, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nirimba .
HMAS Albatross is the main naval air station for the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) aviation branch, the Fleet Air Arm.The base, located near Nowra, New South Wales, was formally established in May 1942 as Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base RAAF Nowra, then was transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Nabbington in 1944, and operated as a naval air station until it was decommissioned in late 1945.
The prefix had been used prior to formal approval, with the torpedo-boat destroyer Parramatta commissioned with the HMAS prefix on 1 March 1911. [ 2 ] The prefix now refers to the monarch of Australia , who is also the King or Queen of the United Kingdom.
HMAS Armidale: ACPB 83 Patrol boat Armidale: 2005 HMAS Arunta: FFH 151 Frigate Anzac: 1998 HMAS Ballarat: FFH 155 Frigate Anzac: 2004 HMAS Bathurst: ACPB 85 Patrol boat Armidale: 2006 HMAS Benalla: A 04 Survey launch Paluma: 1990 HMAS Brisbane: DDG 41 Destroyer Hobart: 2018 HMAS Broome: ACPB 90 Patrol boat Armidale: 2007 HMAS Canberra: L02 ...
HMAS Supply (A195), named after the Royal Navy ship HMS Supply, is the lead ship of the Supply-class replenishment oilers built for the Royal Australian Navy by Navantia at their yard in Ferrol, Spain. The Australian Supply-class ships are based on the Spanish Navy's replenishment oiler Cantabria.