and HMAS Melbourne is the only carrier to have sunk 2 destroyers, from its own side, in peacetime...
And both times it was the fault of the destroyer captain, the USN captain being specifically told about the Daring disaster.
The reason I asked about the training in Pensacola is because I read an interview with the commander of the French Navy in Defense News a few years ago and he said that French pilots do all of their training in the US and the first time a French pilot traps on a carrier it is in a USN trainer on a USN flight deck.
I don't doubt it, but in the RAN case we're talking about pre 1981 and things were different then. Indeed up to 1971 there was a RN carrier in the area and the RAN operated far more closely with them than the USN at the time.