Fraser Coast Chronicle

Hi-tech navy joins search for illegal fishers in QLD waters

The surveillance from Townsville down to the Fraser Coast included helicopters and radiation detection cameras

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22nd Dec. 2020 12:12 PM

Australia Defence Vessel Cape Inscription Navigation Officer Lieutenant Rhys Worboys and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority officer Dwaine Butcher in front of Reef Ranger, a Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service vessel. Picture: Contributed

REUNITED: Bundy teen home after months on navy base

It’s the first time he’s seen his family in person since for nearly eight months. Read about his time training, life on...

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21st Dec. 2020 5:12 AM

WELCOME HOME: Zhannon's family welcomed him home at the Bundaberg Airport on Friday afternoon.

‘Angels’: How aircrew heroes saved families from firestorm

A grateful father has told of the dramatic moment a Royal Australian Navy helicopter airlifted them away from the path of...

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23rd Dec. 2019 2:12 PM

'Angel' air crews save families from fires

'Heart like Phar Lap': Dad celebrated decade after freak hit

The memory of a local larrikin with the "heart of Phar Lap” whose life was tragically cut short playing the game he...

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19th July 2019 5:07 AM

Michael and Angus McLean and Brett Quinn look forward to a memorial match for the late Chris McLean.

NOT THE RUSSIANS: Mystery Coast sub unmasked

A submarine spotted about 100m off a Coast beach was on its way to a major joint exercise focused on "mid-intensity...

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03rd July 2019 9:07 AM

SPOTTED: This submarine was spotted off Bulcock Beach by eagle-eyed photographer Cade Mooney.

Australia’s largest warship broke moorings, crashed after storm

THE storm that struck Townsville on Wednesday caused Australia’s largest warship to crash.

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01st Dec. 2018 7:12 AM

HMAS Adelaide smashes into Glorious Sunrise after rough weather. Picture: Lawrence Pinder

Endeavour adventure for the high seas

Gladstone youth Sidney wasted no time signing up for a hitch aboard the training ship

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23rd Sept. 2018 7:09 PM

SETTING SAIL: Sidney Stuart, 16, from Gladstone, will be boarding the STS Young Endeavour as it voyages south to Brisbane.

China spies on Aussies attacking warship

AUSTRALIA just help sink a major warship. And the Chinese — who had been ‘disinvited’ shortly before the RIMPAC war-games...

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16th July 2018 2:07 PM

The decommissioned USS Racine is hit by a missile during RIMPAC 2018. Picture: USN

Royal Australian Navy cadets 'forced to rape each other'

A ROYALCommission into abuse within the Australian Navy has heard graphic claims that cadets were forced into sexual abuse...

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24th June 2016 6:06 AM

Eleanore Tibble took her own life in 2000, aged 16 after she was threatened with dishonourable discharge

Rocky sailor leads lawsuit after 5 years of broken promises

WHEN Rocky's Clayton Searle signed up to the Royal Australian Navy, he thought he’d return home with an experience of a...

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19th Feb. 2016 5:02 AM

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