Ken Doolan Royal Australian Naval College. He graduated in 1956, undertook sea training in the frigate in 1957 and in December 1958 graduated from the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon. Significant postings held during his 41-year naval career included: After leaving the Australian Defence Force, Doolan has been: Doolan first came to public notice as national president of the RSL in late September 2009 when he made statements in support of Breeanna Till, the pregnant widow of an Australian serviceman Sergeant Brett Till who was killed in the War in Afghanistan on Operation Slipper in early 2009. In 2017 Doolan became
Royal Naval College, Greenwich building. The Navy's Department of Nuclear Science and Technology opened on the college premises in 1959, and JASON, the department's research and training reactor, was commissioned in the King William building in 1962. In 1967 Queen Elizabeth II knighted Francis Chichester on the river steps of the College, honouring his achievement in circumnavigating the world as a solo yachtsman, using the old route of the clippers, becoming the first to do so. His was also the fastest such circumnavigation, taking nine months and one day. The Royal School of Naval Architecture, which had been part of the College since 1873,