During the first few months of the war in 1939, the British Admiralty requested the ships of the Royal Australian Navy be despatched for war service in the European and Mediterranean waters.

• 1939年在战争开始的几个月期间,英国的海军部要求澳大利亚皇家海军派遣船只为在欧洲和地中海水域中战时服役。