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Occasional Paper 77: HMAS Assault. WWII Combined Operations Directorate Establishment – Port Stephens NSW

A.N. Other · Apr 14, 2020 ·

By Dennis J Weatherall JP TM AFAITT(L) LSM – Volunteer Researcher HMAS Assault, also known as the Amphibious Training Centre to American personnel, was a combined operations establishment for training ...

Occasional Paper 75: The Vietnam War and the Royal Australian Navy

A.N. Other · Apr 14, 2020 ·

The following address was delivered by Captain Ralph T. Derbidge MBE RAN (Retired) at the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance to mark Vietnam Veterans Day on 18 August 2010.  It describes ...

Occasional Paper 74: World War 2 Arrived on the Australian Mainland

A.N. Other · Mar 30, 2020 ·

March 2020 By Dennis J Weatherall JP TM AFAITT(L) LSM – Volunteer Researcher Dennis Weatherall attended the recent 78th Anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin, also known as the “Battle ...

Luzon: A 75th Anniversary Australian Battlefield Tour of the Philippines – Part 2

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By Paul Baker On the morning of 15 December 2019, a small ceremony was held at the Australian War Memorial in the forecourt of the Maritime Academy of Asia and ...

Border and Resource Protection: Past Challenges and Future Opportunities for the Royal Australian Navy

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

This essay won the New Entry Officers Course 61 Naval Historical Society History Prize, awarded in December 2019.  By Lieutenant Melissa Chen RAN1 Australia has unique problems and may thus ...

Appear where you are not expected

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By Lieutenant Commander Chris Watson RAN1 This essay won the Smith Prize, which is open to all members of the Department of Defence in the Chief of Navy’s 2019 Essay ...

Last Voyage of the Ayesha

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By A. C. B. Mercer Stranded on Direction Island, in the Cocos Keeling Group, 50 German sailors and their commander from the cruiser Emden, which had been engaged by HMAS ...

Australians in the Decisive Thrust KING II – The Leyte Landings

A.N. Other · Dec 25, 2019 ·

 By Paul Baker Seventy-five years ago, on 18 October 1944, beaten only by the fast minesweepers and the attack forces securing the mouth of the Gulf, the crew of HMAS ...

The White Ensign Club at Nowra

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Fred Dawson, with acknowledgement to Foster Emery (dec.), Albert Morrison (dec.), Len Seyffer, Robyn Florance, OAM, Alan Clark, AM and Dr John Haken. Following the commissioning in August 1949 ...

The Dominion Yachtsmen Scheme: Australian Volunteers in the Royal Navy 1940-45 – Part 1

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Janet Roberts Billett Following the outbreak of war with Germany on 9 September 1939, the losses for the Royal Navy in ships and men through repeated U-boat and air ...

The Pong Su Incident – April 2003

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2019 ·

By Dennis J. Weatherall  The end of the Vietnam War resulted in the arrival into Australia of Vietnamese refugees with the first, known as ‘Boat People’, arriving in Darwin on ...

Occasional Paper 68: Bristol Sycamore HR50/51

A.N. Other · Dec 21, 2019 ·

This paper, first published by the Sea Power Centre – Australia provides an overview of the service history of the Bristol Sycamore rescue and training helicopter operated by the RAN ...

Occasional Paper 69: The Naval Garden on Garden Island, Sydney

A.N. Other · Dec 17, 2019 ·

December 2019 By Colin Randall Colin is a volunteer researcher with the Naval Historical Society of Australia and a tour guide for its heritage tours of the Hill. He lived ...

Occasional Paper 65: Sailors, Soldiers and Two Wars. From HMCS protector to South Africa

A.N. Other · Oct 30, 2019 ·

October 2019 The following story was written by Dr Anthony Stimson BA Hons B Ed PhD, who has extensively researched the history of the Boer War including the South Australian ...

The Admiral, the Ironmaster, the Timber Merchant and the Property Developer

A.N. Other · Sep 29, 2019 ·

This is a story of three men drawn together by the magnetism of a beautiful young artists’ model. Emma Hart, a country girl very much in the image of a ...

Early History of Somerset and Thursday Island

A.N. Other · Sep 29, 2019 ·

This paper by Mr C. G. Austin, Honorary Librarian, was read to The Historical Society of Queensland Inc. on Thursday 28 April 1949 and printed in the Journal of The ...

Radar in the South and Southwest Pacific as at Savo Island in August 1942

A.N. Other · Sep 29, 2019 ·

By R. W. Madsen This paper was prepared largely from notes made many years ago when I was at university and living with my grandparents. My grandfather, Sir John Madsen, ...

An Essay on the Royal Australian Navy’s Involvement in Support of the Compromised SRD Operations in Timor 1943-1945

A.N. Other · Sep 29, 2019 ·

By Sub Lieutenant Nicholas Seton RAN …I feel so sad. What a waste – what a stuff up. It makes one feel a little bitter about the poor intelligence andcommunications ...

Occasional Paper 62: The Navy in South Australia from Colonial Days to the Present

A.N. Other · Sep 16, 2019 ·

September 2019 By Dennis J Weatherall JP TM AFAITT(L) LSM, Volunteer Researcher, Naval Historical Society of Australia It’s reputed that the first sighting of the southern coast of our Great South ...

Occasional Paper 63: Malta Revisited: Wartime Memories of HMAS Vendetta’s Malta Sojourn in World War II

A.N. Other · Sep 16, 2019 ·

September 2019 We are indebted to ex Supply Assistant Gordon Hill for this wonderfully illuminating description of his wartime service in the destroyer HMAS Vendetta when based at Malta.  His ...

Obituary: Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Sam Sakker, MBE, RANR (Rtd)

A.N. Other · Sep 2, 2019 ·

Sam was born in September 1937, in Harbin, the ice city of North Eastern China, but grew up in Tintsin (Tianjin), the coastal metropolis adjacent to Beijing. His parents were ...

Battleship Mikasa – Restoration

A.N. Other · Sep 2, 2019 ·

By Colin Randall After many years of visiting Japan for coal business I took my family on a holiday to this interesting country. One of the sites visited was the ...

Occasional Paper 61: From a Periscope to a Cricket Pitch in a Matter of Days: The Surreal Nature of War

A.N. Other · Aug 3, 2019 ·

August 2019 By Florence Livery My father, Panos (known as Pino) George Livery died in 1996.  Fortunately for us, he left behind a very rich source of history, his World ...

Occasional Paper 59: Francis James Ranken

A.N. Other · Jul 6, 2019 ·

July 2019 Early Career Francis James Ranken was born in 1864 at ‘Saltram’, Eglinton, near Bathurst. He was the eldest son of James Australian Ranken and was educated at All ...

The Special Service Squadron – An episode in the peacetime history of theRoyal Navy 1923-1924

A.N. Other · Jun 6, 2019 ·

Rohan Goyne The ‘World Cruise’ of a special service squadron of the Royal Navy was an inter-war episode of flag waving across the world’s oceans from arguably a declining world ...

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