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HMAS Tobruk

Australian Army Medic, then Sergeant Joanne Cook, examines a little girl with malaria in February 1993. Story by Corporal Luke Bellman. Photo by Corporal Gary Ramage.
Australian Army Health and Wellbeing History News Overseas 

Citation for troops who risked their safety to help Somalis

01/02/202402/02/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2155 Views 0 Comments 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, HMAS Tobruk, Meritorious Unit Citation, Operation Solace, Somalia

Meritorious Unit Citations (MUC) have been awarded to ADF units that served in Somalia between 1992 and 1995. CAPTION: Australian Army

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Then HMAS Tobruk conducting flight deck trials and certification in Jervis Bay in June 1981.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy Veterans 

Ex-HMAS Tobruk will be scuttled on Friday

27/06/201827/06/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8014 Views 0 Comments HMAS Tobruk

Ex-HMAS Tobruk will be towed out of the Port of Bundaberg on Thursday 28 June in preparation for her final

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File photo – HMAS Tobruk. Photo by Able Seaman Helen Frank.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Tobruk destined for Bundaberg dive wreck

03/12/201603/12/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6398 Views 2 Comments HMAS Tobruk

Ex-HMAS Tobruk will continue to serve Australia—now as a tourist destination—when it is scuttled off the coast between Bundaberg and

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HMAS Tobruk and HMAS Sydney conduct Officer of the Watch manoeuvres (2013).
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

Former HMA Ships Tobruk and Sydney will be sunk

08/04/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5348 Views 0 Comments dive wreck, HMAS Sydney, HMAS Tobruk

Minister for Defence Marise Payne today announced that the decommissioned vessels, former HMA Ships Tobruk and Sydney, will be offered to the States

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Australian News Royal Australian Navy Veterans 

HMAS Tobruk was formally decommissioned today

31/07/201521/04/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6058 Views 1 Comment HMAS Tobruk, RAN, Royal Australian Navy

After 35 years of service to the Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Tobruk was formally decommissioned today in Sydney. The Governor-General,

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