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However, the base at Saldanha soon reverted to a training base in 1951 when the Naval Gymnasium was set up with 44 trainees reporting for a year's training. [1] Before the unit was christened SAS Saldanha on 1 March 1956, it was known as the "Naval and Marine Gymnasium" and "SAS Drommedaris."
SAS Saldanha) located on the West Coast and provides training and development for ratings [ 3 ] SAS Wingfield – ( 33°54′24.9″S 18°31′53.46″E / 33.906917°S 18.5315167°E / -33.906917; 18.5315167 ) located in the Greater Cape Town
SAS Saldanha - located on the West Coast and provides training and development for ratings [11] SAS Wingfield - located in the Greater Cape Town area; provides practical training for apprentices and the technical musterings [12] SAS Simonsberg - training in gunnery, anti-submarine warfare, communications, diving and seamanship [13]
Built by Herbie Spradbrow, Durban. Attached to SAS Robbeneiland. Used as ferry between Cape Town and Murry's Harbour on Robben Island. Transferred to Military Academy, Saldanha in 1971. [85] HDML 1100-1300 Series [86] HDML 1330 HDML1330 23 June 1944 1953 S Afr Waters: 1944-45 [14] Sold for scrap 1953 Built by Fred Nicolls, Durban. [85]
HMS Thames was a Mersey-class cruiser launched in 1885 for the Royal Navy. Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis was a wealthy businessman, yachtsman and philanthropist. In 1920 Davis bought the Thames from the British Admiralty and sent her to South Africa.
SAS Somerset, originally named HMS Barcross, was a Bar-class boom defence vessel of the South African Navy. It operated in Saldanha Bay , was transferred to South Africa Naval Forces during World War II, and was purchased by South Africa in 1947.
[clarification needed] On 11 April 2005, G squadron, SAS captured Fadhil Ibrahim al-Mashhadani, one of Saddam Hussein's former apparatchik after assaulting a farm north-east of Baghdad that intelligence had traced him to. At about the same time, in an attempt to find the kidnappers of a foreigner, the SAS also captured a former senior Ba'athist ...
Dieter Felix Gerhardt (born 1 November 1935) is a former commodore in the South African Navy and commander of the strategic Simon's Town naval dockyard. He was arrested by the FBI in New York City in 1983 following information obtained from a Soviet defector.