[1][2] The base was built with Australian Allied Works Council civilian contractors and rent was paid for under the reverse Lend-Lease act.

In Granville Park, in the neighborhood Merrylands in Sydney, the Navy built a Naval Base Hospital that at its peak could service 500 Troops.

In July 1944 a team of 90 US Navy Seabees with the 84th Battalion arrived from Naval Base Brisbane to repair the USS Venus.

she was towed to Naval Base Sydney for repair and conversion to a Crater-class cargo ship under charter to the US Navy.

*After Victory over Japan Day the base closed and the US Navy started taking Troops home in Operation Magic Carpet.