HMAS Watson


HMAS Watson
Part of Fleet Base East
South Head / Watsons Bay, New South Wales in Australia
HMAS Watson from Sydney Harbour in 2021
HMAS Watson is located in Sydney
HMAS Watson
HMAS Watson
Location in Sydney
Coordinates33°50′13″S 151°16′48″E / 33.837°S 151.280°E / -33.837; 151.280
TypeNaval training base
Site information
OwnerDepartment of Defence
Operator Royal Australian Navy (1942 – 1967);
 Royal Australian Navy(1967 – present)
Site history
Built1942 (1942)
In use1942 – present
Garrison information
Current
commander
Captain RAN

HMAS Watson is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base on Sydney Harbour at South Head, near Watsons Bay in Sydney, Australia. Commissioned in 1945 (after three years operating as HMAS Radar), the base served as the RAN's radar training school. In 1956, torpedo and anti-submarine warfare training were relocated to the base, and by 2011, Watson was the main maritime warfare training base, as well as providing post-entry education for maritime warfare officers, training for combat system and electronic warfare sailors, and command training.


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