On her final day assigned to operations in the Middle East, Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Melbourne continued her important work of securing vital sea lanes of communication. Hours before handing ...

A Canberra court has upheld a ruling preventing a former sailor taking legal action for developing a mental illness after the 1964 HMAS Melbourne collision. Barry Thomas Blunden was on board HMAS ...

HMAS Melbourne recently seized 151 kilograms of heroin worth an estimated $AUD44.5 million from a dhow off the east coast of Africa. The drug haul is the second for ...

The 138m-long guided missile frigate docked at the Garden Island naval base for its decommissioning after 27 years of service, which included the display of pennant for the occasion and the raising of ...

HMAS Melbourne's boarding party intercepts a suspected pirate boat. (Photo: ABIS Jayson Tufrey) HMAS Melbourne's boarding party intercepts a suspected pirate boat. (Photo: ABIS Jayson Tufrey) HMAS ...

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has decommissioned Adelaide class guided missile frigate, HMAS Melbourne, during a ceremony at Garden Island in Sydney. The frigate served 27 years for the RAN, ...

AUSTRALIAN warship HMAS Melbourne has made another big drug bust in the Middle East, seizing two tonnes of cannabis resin from a smuggling dhow. This quantity of drugs has an estimated Australian ...

CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: It's more than 40 years since one of Australia's worst naval disasters, the collision between HMAS Melbourne and an American warship, the USS Frank E. Evans. The training ...

On the evening of 10 February 1964, the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, flagship of the Royal Australian Navy, and the Daring-class destroyer HMAS Voyager were conducting a night exercise to the ...

THE warship HMAS Melbourne has uncovered a huge amount of illicit drugs and weapons during one of her first mission raids in the Middle East. THE navy warship HMAS Melbourne picked up where HMAS ...