HMAS Basilisk

Aerial Photo of HMAS Basilisk

HMAS Basilisk was the first Royal Australian Navy shore naval base in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

The base was commissioned on 1 January 1943 under the command of Commander R.B.A. Hunt RAN, who was previously the Naval Officer in Charge Port Moresby.[1][2] Hunt was the hydrographic surveyor who had surveyed Port Moresby.[3]

HMAS Basilisk was paid off on 17 December 1945.

HMAS Basilisk was re-commissioned under CMDR P. Paffard, RAN on 14 November 1974 to provide administrative support for RAN personnel serving with the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.[4]

The naval base was finally decommissioned in 1983.

References

  1. ↑ Australian War Memorial (1952). Australia in the war of 1939-1945, p. 268.
  2. ↑ Walker, Allan Seymour (1961). Medical services of the R. A. N. and R. A. A. F. Australian War Memorial, p. 46.
  3. ↑ Sinclair, James Patrick (1988). Last frontiers: the explorations of Ivan Champion of Papua: a record of geographical exploration in Australia's Territory of Papua between 1926 and 1940. Queensland: Pacific Press, ISBN 978-0-87515-000-0, p. 282.
  4. ↑ Australia Department of Defence (1976). An outline of Australian naval history. Australian Govt. Pub. Service, p. 77.

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