The launch of HMAS Swan, Cockatoo Island, 11 December 1915. Image courtesy Australian War Memorial.
- The torpedo boat destroyer HMAS Swan is launched at Cockatoo Island by Lady Creswell, wife of the first Naval Member
- Private James Elliot Bell writes his very first diary entry:
Left Liverpool 9.10 train, on to Rhodes, embarked on ferry, down Parramatta to Sydney aboard Mooltan; sailed 1.30; dinner 2 p.m. Retired 8.30, slept on deck, issued hammocks and life-belts.
Courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and courtesy copyright holder
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- Bulgarian forces capture Doiran and Gevgeli in southern Serbia
