PRINGs in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)
The Commonwealth Naval Force was formed 1st March 1901 through the amalgamation of vessels from five of the six Colonial Navies, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania, Western Australia did not have a Naval Force.
On the 10th July 1911 the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) was established.
The first Royal Australian Navy ship was HMAS Parramatta, a destroyer, she was launched at Govan, Scotland on 9th February 1910. Her sister ship HMAS Yarra was launched at Dunbarton, Scotland 9th Apr 1910. A third destroyer HMAS Warrego was commissioned in 1912 at Sydney.
HMAS Australia - Battle Cruiser
In 1913 HMAS Australia, Indefatigable-class Battle Cruiser, 18,500 tons, 4 x twin 12inch Guns and 16 x 4inch Guns joined the Fleet as Flagship of the RAN. This was followed by HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Sydney, Town Class Light Cruisers, 5,400 tons, 8 x 6inch Guns
At the outbreak of WW1, the Royal Australian Fleet comprised, the Battle Cruiser HMAS Australia, with 6 x Light Cruisers, 6 x Destroyers and 2 x Submarines (HMAS AE1 & HMAS AE2), with a host of ancillary craft. HMAS AE2 was the first Allied warship to penetrate the Dardanelles in support of the Gallipoli Campaign. HMAS AE2 was latter scuttled by her crew after being badly damaged by Turkish Gun Fire.
During WW1 the RAN was commanded by the British Admiralty, By August 1914 the RAN had 3,800 Officers and Ratings of which some 820 persons came from the Royal Navy.
PRINGs in the Royal Australian Navy
Able Seaman (AB) Arthur Cecil PRING,
Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Arthur Cecil PRING (b. 20th Sep 1925 Bundaberg, Queensland) Able Seaman, (AB) Royal Australian Navy, (RAN) - Service No B4988 – Enlisted; 16th Oct 1943 – Discharged; 17th Oct 1946 –
Ships & Shore Establishments AB PRING served on;
- HMAS Cerberus (Training Establishment, Crib Point, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria)
- HMAS Moreton (Shore Base, Brisbane) (1942-1944)
- HMAS Macquarie (River Class Frigate)
- HMAS Basilisk (Shore Base, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
- HMAS Ladava, (Shore Base, Milne Bay (PNG)
- HMAS Madang (Shore Base, Madang, PNG)
- HMAS Platypus, (Repair Ship, PNG)
- HMAS Penguin, (Seamanship School) (1939-1940)
- HMAS Brisbane (Shore Base, Brisbane) (1940-1942)
- HMAS Magnetic, (Shore Base, Townsville, Queensland)
- Wife; Ann PRING
- Father; Arthur Amesbury PRING (b. 28 Sep 1902 Queensland) Australian Army Lieutenant.
Frederick PRING (b. 2nd Nov 1870 Newport, I.O.W. Hampshire) Engineer Commander, Royal Navy (RN) - NOK; Wife; Agnes Mabel PRING (b. 12th Jun 1870, London)
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. 79 Saturday, 14th December 1912
The undermentioned officers are appointed to the Royal Australian Navy for a period of three years, at rates of pay and allowances prescribed in Financial Regulations for the Naval Forces of the Commonwealth (Sea - going) :
To date from 1st September, 1912:
Engineer- Commander FREDERICK PRING, R.N. ;
Engineer- Lieutenant HENRY AUGUSTL S LITTLE, R.N. ;
Gunner ARTHUR BROWN, R.N.;
Gunner (Acting) FREDERICK KNIGHT, R.N.;
Carpenter ERNEST EDWARD BUSH, R.N.;
Artificer - Engineer ERNEST BAKER, R.N.
The above Officers and Ratings all served upon;
HMAS Melbourne - Town Class Light Cruiser - Commissioned; 18th Jan 1913 - 5,400 tons - 8 x 6inch Guns, 2 x 21inch Torpedo’s, 467 Crew - Speed; 27.5knots.
Graham John PRING (b. 3rd Apr 1949 Gawler South Australia) Sub Lieutenant, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) – Service No; 02766 - Seniority; 18th Jul 1966 – Discharged; 7th Jul 1969 –
Ships & Shore Establishments, Lieutenant PRING served on;
HMAS Cerberus Training School, Crib Point, Victoria – 21st Jul 1966
HMAS Watson – Training Base, Watsons Bay, Sydney.
HMAS Waratah – Additional for Pilot Training, Pensacola, Florida, USA (22.10.66 to 23. 12. 67)
HMAS Encounter – Naval Base, Birkenhead, South Australia (1968)
HMAS Melbourne – Aircraft Carrier, (1968)
HMAS Albatross – Naval Air Station, Nowra, New South Wales, (1969)
NOK, Father; Henry Oswald Lloyd PRING (b. 1904 Barossa, South Australia).
William Alfred PRING (b. 23rd Nov 1922 Ballarat, Victoria) Stoker, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) -Service No; W2233 – Enlisted; 30th Jun 1941 Williamstown Victoria, - Discharged; 3rd Dec 1945,
Ships & Establishments, Stoker PRING served on;
HMAS Lonsdale - (Naval Base, Port of Melbourne, Victoria) - 30 Jun 1941 to 27 Aug 1941
HMAS Cerberus - (Naval Training Establishment, Victoria) - 28 Aug 1941 to 5 Feb 1942
HMAS Melville (Naval Base, Darwin, NT) - 6 Feb 1942 to 2 Jun 1942
HMAS Platypus (Sea going Training Ship) - Jun 1944
HMAS Arthur Rose (FY29) - Requisitioned Vessel, a Lugger, [2 masted sailing vessel with Engine], used as a Supply Vessel (Oct/Nov 1942)
HMAS Ibis (Requisitioned Vessel, a Lugger, Darwin 1942).
HMAS Caledonian Salvor - Ocean Salvage Tug (Never Commissioned in the RAN - 22 Dec 1943)
HMAS Kalgoorlie (J192) Bathurst Class Corvette (Apr 1944)
HMAS Cowra (J351) - Bathurst Class Corvette (Jul 1944)
HMAS Ballarat (J184) - Bathurst Class Corvette (Oct 1944)
HMAS Glenelg (J236) - Bathurst Class Corvette (Jan 1945)
NOK; Wife; Marie Constance PRING (nee; STEPHENS) (b. 1920 Ballarat, Victoria) - Father; Alfred PRING (b. 1898 Footscray, Victoria) .
Alan Ross PRING-SHAMBLER (b. 1939 Edmonton, Middlesex, UK) Lieutenant. Royal Australian Navy (RAN) – Service No; R52054 – Enlisted; 8th Jan 1956, Brisbane, Queensland. – NOK, Wife; Robyn Lynette GENTLES – Father; Walter Wesley PRING-SHAMBLER (b. 26 Apr 1896 Gympie, Queensland) Australian Army Private, 2nd General Reinforcements (AIF) & 1st Garrison Battalion (AMF) – Service No; 53007 (WW1) & Q187137 (WW2) (See; Australian Army).
Peter PRING- SHAMBLER (b. ?) Lieutenant Commander, Royal Australian Navy, (RAN) - Deployed 1975.
Source:
1. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) - Nominal Rolls (https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au)
2. Australian War Memorial (AWM) Roll of Honour, Canberra ACT 2061, Australia (https://www.awm.gov.au/people/roll-
search/roll_of_honour/)
3. Oxford University Roll of Service by E.S. Craig MA and W.A Gibson BA Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920.
4. British History On-line (Digital Library) – Greenwich: The Hospital for Seaman –
(http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp177-190)
5. Find My Past (FMP) World Records - Military, Armed Forces and Conflict - (http://www.findmypast.co.uk/)
6. Royal Navy Medals, Honours & Gallantry Awards Part 4, Battle of Jutland – London Gazette Editions 29751 & 29752
Sept. 1916 - (http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishLGDecorations1916Jutland.htm)
7. National Australia Archives - Record Search (https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/)
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