1918
MIDN E.F. Cunningham, RAN was drowned when the submarine HMS K17, in which he was serving, was rammed and sunk by a British warship in the North Sea. Cunningham was a member of the original 1913 entry to the RAN College and the first graduate to lose his life on active service.
1941
The auxiliary minesweeper HMAS TERKA was commissioned. TERKA (ex- SIR DUDLEY DE CHAIR), was laid down in the State Dockyard, Newcastle, NSW, in 1925, for Dorman Long & Co, and renamed TERKA in 1928 under the Adelaide Steamship Co ownership. She was requisitioned in December 1940 by the RAN.
1942
The British Far Eastern Fleet, which included HMA Ships NAPIER, NIZAM and NESTOR, (destroyers), passed within 90 miles of a superior Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean.
1945
Fremantle-based USS BOARFISH, (submarine), sank the Japanese transport ENKI MARU off Indo China.
1959
HMAS PARRAMATTA, (destroyer escort), was commissioned at Sydney. PARRAMATTA was the second ship of her class built in Australia.
1968
VADM Sir Alan McNicoll, KBE, CB, GM, RAN, hoisted his flag in HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), off the coast of Vietnam. It was the first occasion that a Chief of Staff had flown his flag in an Australian warship in operations of war.
1973
HMAS KARA KARA, (boom defence vessel), and a former Sydney vehicle ferry, was sunk as a combined surface gunnery and aerial missile target off Sydney Heads.
1996
The use of Morse key for sending messages formally ceased in the RAN after 85 years, to be replaced with modern communication systems. Visual Morse (or flashing light), however, still remains in use
1998
The Collins class submarine, HMAS FARNCOMB was commissioned at Adelaide, SA. FARNCOMB was laid down in the Australian Submarine Corporation, and launched on 15 December 1995.
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