Navy & Sydney Harbour

A Symbiotic Relationship

Commander Shane Moore, CSM, RANDirector

Naval Heritage Collection

Overview

Themed approach

The Harbour

The Navy

Shore Facilities

Today & Tomorrow

The Harbour

Geography

Capability

Development

Two Centuries of Navy

RN Australian Squadron.

Creation of the RAN.

In Peace & War.

Changing use.

A Safe Harbour

Shore Facilities- Spectacle Island

Armaments Depot 1865.

Longest continuously serving naval base in Australia.

Armaments work ceased in 1979 on the Island.

Now the Main Repository for the Naval Heritage Collection.

Shore Facilities – Garden Island

Originally a mooring area only.

Naval base built 1800 – 1895.

On-going infrastructure additions until present day.

Now includes Fleet Base -East.

Shore Facilities – Captain Cook Graving Dock

Build by the MSB 1941 – 1945.

Still the largest of its type in the Southern Hemisphere.

Repair & Maintenance only.

A strategic asset.

Shore Facilities – Navy Establishments

HMAS Rushcutter – 1940 – 1968

HMAS Kuttabul - 1943

HMAS Penguin - 1943

HMAS Watson - 1945

HMAS Waterhen – 1962

HMAS Platypus – 1967 - 1999

Shore Facilities - Dockyards

Cockatoo Island Dockyard.

Woolwich Dockyard.

Morts Dockyard.

No large ship building dockyard remains in the Harbour.

Shore Facilities – Fuel & Moorings

Chowder Bay

Athol Bight

De-Gausing Range

A Notable Heritage

Today & Tomorrow

Navy & the Harbour today.

Losses & Gains.

Garden Island re-development.

What comes next?

Summary

Sydney Harbour is part of Navy’s DNA.

Since white settlement the harbour has been central to the maritime defence of Australia.

The harbour is no longer the great sea-port it once was.

Navy’s need for the harbour has not degraded.

The future may bring significant changes.

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