Section: Operations
Toowoomba to be welcomed home
Published on by LEUT Samantha Dudley (author), POIS Phil Cullinan (photographer)
HMAS Toowoomba transits international waters.
HMAS Toowoomba will receive a warm welcome home when she sails into Fleet Base West, HMAS Stirling tomorrow, Friday 14 June 2013 following her six month deployment to the Middle East Area of Operations.
HMAS Newcastle's first replenishment
Published on by LEUT Suresh Kumar (author), POEW Ben White (photographer)
The refueling line from RFA Fort Victoria is connected to HMAS Newcastle during a replenishment at sea in the Middle East for Operation SLIPPER.
HMAS Newcastle has conducted her first Replenishment at Sea (RAS) serial in the Middle East Area of Operations with RFA Fort Victoria on 29 May 2013.
This RAS was the first such evolution in the MEAO for Newcastle (CMDR P O’Grady, CSM) and added to Newcastle’s growing list of partnerships with international replenishment ships.
HMAS Newcastle provides medical care to badly injured merchant seamen
Published on by POEW Ben White (photographer)
HMAS Newcastle's Helicopter S70B Seahawk 'Gremlin', lowers personnel from HMAS Newcastle's Medical Team to provide assistance to the injured crew members.
Australia’s HMAS Newcastle has provided medical treatment and evacuated two badly burned Filipino merchant seamen from a stricken oil tanker in the Somali Basin.
Extreme medicine: just another day for naval medical teams at sea
Published on by LEUT Grant McDuling (author), LSIS Peter Thompson (photographer)
Medical staff of HMAS Sydney (IV). From the left, Able Seaman Medic Danielle Dickinson, Leading Seaman Medic Tom Pearson, Lieutenant Luke Edwards and Petty Officer Medic Dan Fox.
Being self-sufficient for months on end in a remote environment is the name of the game for doctors and medics serving in warships of the Royal Australian Navy. When it comes to facing and overcoming challenges of just about any kind, this has got to be one of the most demanding, and satisfying, fields to operate in.
HMAS Toowoomba (II) returning home from Middle East
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HMAS Toowoomba (II) and HMAS Newcastle conduct their Operation SLIPPER handover and officer of the watch manoeuvres in the northern Indian Ocean.
HMAS Toowoomba (II) is making her way home to Australia after handing over maritime security and interception operations for Operation SLIPPER in the Middle East Area of Operations to HMAS Newcastle.