rom this small modest start, the Royal Australian Navy quickly developed its experience with naval aviation by developing seaplane carriers such as HMAS , HMAS and HMAS throughout the First World War. Post war advocates of further developing naval aviation were met with hostility from the Royal Australian Air Force which wanted to control all military aviation in Australia. Politicians went along with the Air Force and throughout the 1920s and 30s all naval aviation was tightly controlled by the Air Force limiting its development. By the late 1930s, the seaplane carriers had all
