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A former salvage diver is intent on finding the final resting place of Australia's first submarine, AE1.
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed Australia is considering joint patrols with Indonesia in the contested South China Sea.
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A German U-boat supposedly said by its captain to have been sunk by a giant sea monster at the end of World War I has been discovered off the west coast of Scotland.
Topics: world-war-1, navy, human-interest, offbeat, scotland
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| UpdatedAustralian Navy patrols have seized over 950 kilograms of pure grade heroin on the Indian Ocean — but admit it is only a trickle of the flood that is getting through.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, navy, defence-and-national-security, afghanistan, tanzania-united-republic-of
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government says it wants to split the Adelaide-based shipbuilder ASC into three separate companies: shipbuilding, submarine maintenance and support, and infrastructure.
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Australian warships, planes and soldiers begin annual joint military exercises with four strategic allies in the sensitive South China Sea region, but the Defence Force denies the activity is aimed at sending a message to Beijing.
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| UpdatedThe ABC goes aboard the HMAS Warramunga and HMAS Glenelg for a look at Exercise Kakadu — the largest Australian Navy exercise.
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Australian patrol boat HMAS Gladstone has opened to the public as a museum in the central Queensland city that shares its name.
Topics: navy, history, 20th-century, gladstone-4680, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedA 21-year-old woman who went missing in 1997 died after a violent confrontation with a Navy sailor at Broome wharf, the West Australian coroner rules.
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Experts say a spike in the number of foreign boats caught fishing illegally in Australian waters could signal an influx of poachers into the region.
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The Navy has stood aside Commander Michael Letts as it investigates an on-board complaint by a female officer.
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| UpdatedThe Royal Australian Navy stands aside the commander of one of its largest ships, HMAS Success, while it investigates an on-board complaint from a female officer.
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A week-long search for two people stranded on an uninhabited Micronesian island ends as they are rescued after writing "SOS" in the sand.
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| UpdatedA US Navy ship fires warning shots after an Iranian fast-attack craft approaches two US ships in the northern Gulf on Wednesday, a US Defense official says.
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| UpdatedFour concerned local groups in the Northern Marianas have filed a complaint against the US navy's plans to station thousands of marines in Guam and hold live-fire training on the islands.
Topics: environment, environmental-health, defence-and-national-security, navy, pacific, guam, northern-mariana-islands
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Wollongong artist Bob McRae is one of the few people in Australia allowed to go on board Navy vessels to paint what he sees, but his love for the military and the nature it inhabits runs deep.
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| UpdatedAustralian Navy warship HMAS Darwin returns to its home port but the recent death of a crewmate made the journey bittersweet for those on board.
Topics: defence-forces, navy, death, darwin-0800, oman
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A Taiwanese warship has mistakenly fired a supersonic "aircraft carrier killer" missile towards China, the navy says.
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| UpdatedRussia's Defence Ministry accuses an American destroyer of coming dangerously close to a Russian frigate in the Mediterranean Sea, calling the incident a "gross violation" of international agreements.
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Minutes after Suzi Vincent shared her story, Roz Pappalardo and Deb Suckling from The Soldier's Wife launched into song.
Topics: music-industry, death, defence-forces, defence-industry, navy, army, women, townsville-4810
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The Australian Navy's newest and largest ship, HMAS Adelaide, has made its first voyage to South Australia.
Topics: navy, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, outer-harbor-5018, sa, adelaide-5000
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Momentum is building in a campaign to protect the wreck of an Australian ship that went down during World War II.
Topics: world-war-2, navy, history, australia, indonesia