1900

1900	6-Jan	The Naval Brigade from HMS Powerful repulsed a strong Boer attack at Ladysmith, South Africa.
1900	7-Jan	HMS Protector, former SAN gunboat, Capt William Creswell, RN, returned from service in the Boxer Rebellion.
1900	3-Jun	HM ships Wallaroo, Mohawk and Lizard sailed from Sydney to join Admiral Sir P. Seymour’s squadron in China.
1900	27-Jun	HMS Orlando’s Naval Brigade joined forces with HMS Endymio in the capture of the Chinese arsenal at Tientsin
1900	31-Jul	The Victorian Naval Brigade Contingent for the Boxer Rebellion sailed from Melbourne in the transport Salamis.
1900	6-Aug	HM colonial ship Protector, Capt W. R. Creswell, RN, sailed from Adelaide to China to participate in the Boxer Rebellion.
1900	8-Aug	Naval Brigade contingents from Victoria and New South Wales sailed in the transport Salamis from Sydney for China and service in the Boxer Rebellion.
1900	12-Aug	SA gunboat, Protector, Capt W. R. Creswell, RN, sailed from Sydney for China.
1900	15-Aug	The Victorian Naval Brigade contingent to the Boxer Rebellion landed at Taku. They advanced to Tientsin next day but fighting had ended and they were employed as police and firemen.
1900	18-Sep	A force of 600 drawn from the Australian Naval contingents assembled at Tientsin for the attack on Chinese Boxer fortifications at Peking.
1900	19-Sep	The 600-strong Australian Naval Brigade Contingent advanced by lighter and road to attack the Chinese Boxer fortifications at Peking. They arrived to find the fort had been taken by the Russians.
1900	30-Oct	The Naval Brigade of HMS Powerful, a flagship of the Australia Station, attacked Boer positions at Lombards Kop, Ladysmith, South Africa.
1901	3-Jan	The Imperial Squadron based in Sydney consisted of HM ships Royal Arthur, 1st class cruiser; Porpoise, torpedo cruiser; Archer, torpedo cruiser; Pylades, composite steam corvette; Ringdove, composite steam gunboat, and Torch, sloop. The Australian Auxiliary Squadron, also based in Sydney, consisted of Tauranga, 2nd class cruiser; Wallaroo, 2nd class HM ships Katoomba, 2nd class cruiser; Mildura, 3rd class cruiser; Ringarooma, 2nd class cruiser; cruiser and Karrakatta, torpedo gunboat.
1901	29-Jul	HMS Torch reported meeting the round-the-world canoeist Capt John Voss at Penrhyn Island. Voss undertook the voyage in a dugout Indian canoe.
1901	3-Sep	The Australian flag was flown for the first time on the Melbourne Exhibition Building. It was approved by the King and authorised by the Australian Government on 20 February 1903. The design was amended on the request of the Admiralty in 1912.
1903	9-Apr	The first message received from a ship at sea to an Australian wireless station was transmitted by the Queensland gunboat, Gayundah, to a receiv-ing station in Brisbane. The historic message read: ‘Gun drill continued this afternoon and was fairly successful—blowing squally and raining— prize firing tomorrow. Marconi insulators were interfered with by rain but easily rectified and communication since has been good. Good night.’ The ship’s aerial was a tall bamboo pole lashed to the mast.
1903	7-May	HMS Dart complained to the Victualling Officer at Sydney that salt beef issued to the ship had been in brine since 1863, and that the ship’s biscuits were so hard they required boiling for an hour before use. As a survey ship Dart received compensation issues of coffee, tinned mutton and pickles.
1905	18-Jul	The naval prison at Garden Island, Sydney, was completed. It provided accommodation for 12.
1911	10-Jul	HRH King Georve V granted the title of Royal Australian Navy to the Permanent Common-wealth Naval Forces and Royal Australian Naval Reserve.