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HMAS Oxley
Two submarines of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS ''Oxley'', for the explorer John Oxley John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784 – 25 May 1828) was an English List of explorers, explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He served as Surveyor General of New South Wales and is perhaps bes .... * HMAS ''Oxley'', an ''Odin''-class submarine launched in 1926 and transferred to the Royal Navy in 1931. * , an ''Oberon''-class submarine launched in 1965, decommissioned in 1992, and broken up for scrap. {{DEFAULTSORT:Oxley, Hmas Royal Australian Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the navy, naval branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (Australia), Chief of Navy (CN) Vice admiral (Australia), Vice Admiral Mark Hammond (admiral), Mark Hammond. The Chief of Navy is also jointly responsible to the Minister for Defence (Australia), Minister for Defence (MINDEF) and the Chief of the Defence Force (Australia), Chief of the Defence Force (CDF). The Department of Defence (Australia), Department of Defence, which is a part of the Australian Public Service, administers the ADF, and ergo, the Royal Australian Navy. In 2023, the Surface Fleet Review was introduced to outline the future of the Navy. The navy was formed in 1901 as the Commonwealth Naval Forces (CNF) through the amalgamation of the colonial navies of Australia following the federation of Australia. Although it was originally intended for local defence, it became increasingly responsible for regional defence as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Oxley
John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784 – 25 May 1828) was an English List of explorers, explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He served as Surveyor General of New South Wales and is perhaps best known for his two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales and his exploration of the Tweed River (New South Wales), Tweed River and the Brisbane River in what is now the Queensland, state of Queensland. Early life John Oxley was born in 1784 at Kirkham Priory, Kirkham Abbey near Westow in Yorkshire, England, and baptised at Bulmer, North Yorkshire, Bulmer in St Martin's Church, Bulmer, St Martin's Church on 6 July 1784. He was the eldest of eight children of John and Arabella Oxley and was a Protestant. Naval career In 1799 (aged 15), he entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman on the . He travelled to Australia in October 1802 as master's mate of the naval vessel , which carried out coastal surveying (including the survey o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Oxley
HMS ''Oxley'' (originally HMAS ''Oxley'') was an of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) then Royal Navy (RN). Very slightly off course, near Obrestad, on the south-western cape of Norway, she was hit by friendly fire seven days after the start of World War II costing 53 lives and leaving two survivors. Design and construction The s were built to a slightly modified design for Australian service. They were in length overall, with a beam of , and a mean draught of .Bastock, ''Australia's Ships of War'', p. 110 Displacement was 1,350 tons when surfaced, and 1,870 tons when submerged. The boats had diesel motors for surface running and electricity generation, but when underwater ran off electric motors. They had two propeller shafts. Maximum speed was on the surface, and when dived. ''Oxley'' had a ship's company of 54. Armament consisted of eight torpedo tubes (six facing forward, two facing aft), one deck gun, and two machine guns. ''Oxley'' was laid down by Vickers-Armstron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
