HMAS Choules returns to Mallacoota for the first time since the crew evacuated more than 1,300 people during the 2019-20 summer fires. (Supplied: Australian Defence Force) ...

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The Choules, which had most recently been in Fiji, took the last contingent of its passengers aboard the 16,000 tonne, 176-metre long ship just before 5pm for what is expected to be a 20-hour ...

The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) landing ship dock HMAS Choules has conducted first of class flight trials for the CH-47F Chinook helicopter, the RAN announced on 26 March.. The CH-47F conducted 206 ...

HMAS Choules, one of the Australian Navy’s amphibious ships, is on it’s way to Mallacoota’s coast to rescue those stranded by the deadly bushfire that claimed one life and destroyed homes.

The 16,000-tonne HMAS Choules can carry 160 personnel and will be docked in the eastern states. Its commanding officer, John Cowan, says the ship's name honours a great man.

“HMAS Choules and her crew remained anchored off Manus Island after the ADF land-based tasks were complete, and the land task force returned home on 14 August 2013,” VADM Griggs said.

The system can be upgraded to support automated UAV landing systems in future. A new visual aid landing system has been commissioned for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) HMAS Choules, an ex-UK RN ...

HMAS Choules anchored off Hastings before evacuees were brought to shore on landing crafts on Wednesday. 66 CFA firefighters and 205 evacuees were brought to Hastings from Mallacoota aboard the ...

A Melbourne family that has secured a spot on the HMAS Choules says they’re looking forward to getting out of fire ravaged Mallacoota. Ben Nutbean, from Heidelberg, has been on the boat with his ...