In need of a speaker?
Did you know Society volunteers are versatile and can deliver other entertaining presentations in addition to naval history. Our speakers program is available as a free service but bookings must be made well in advance to avoid disappointment.
Our experienced speakers can deliver a presentation at your club meetings either face to face within the greater Sydney region. Our knowledgeable and enthusiastic speakers are naturally available for a Q&A at the end of the session. Speakers bring their own laptops and require the use of a data projector with screen or TV with HDMI connection at your venue.
More than twenty presentations on a broad range of maritime and other subjects are available. The topic is agreed upon by the available speaker and your groups organiser. Feel free to peruse our list and contact us if you wish to proceed.
Presentation Topics
Outstanding Australians
- The Halversons: boat builders
- Women sailors: Kay Cottee and Jessica Watson
- How we won the America’s Cup in 1983
- Ken Warby: still the fastest man on water after over 40 years
- Teddy Sheean: the first and only VC for the RAN
- Heroic men: the names of the Collins-class submarines
- Krait: the commando raid on Singapore to sink Japanese ships
Finding long-lost ships to bring some closure
- HMAS Sydney II: the pride of the RAN in WWII
- HMAS Centaur: our hospital ship
- AE1: our first submarine lost in WWI
- USS Indianapolis: the ship that delivered the atomic bomb
WWI and WWII
- The Navy at Gallipoli: an unknown story
- The miracle of D-Day
- The Sydney II and Kormoran battle
- The bombing of Darwin
- Catalinas: the battle for Australia
Maritime disasters
- The Melbourne and Voyager collision
- Costa Concordia: capsizing, salvage and scrapping