Vice Admiral MacDougall accepted our invitation to be patron of the Society when he succeeded Admiral Hudson as Chief of Naval Staff on 8th March, 1991. His curriculum vitae follows: ...
Pictorial – Reserve Fleet, Fremantle
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The Tobruk Ferry – Alias The Spud Run
Fremantle Naval Artillery
75th Anniversary of landings at Gallipoli
HMA Ships Sydney and Tobruk and HMAS/M Oxley represented the Royal Australian Navy as part of the International Fleet assembled for the Anniversary of the Landings at Gallipoli on 25th ...
True tales from travellers
The following snippets have appeared in various hotels, shops and other places in non-English speaking countries around the world. The original intent has lost something in the translation from the ...
STUFT-Ships Taken Up From Trade – An historical perspective
Cockatoo Dockyard and the American Fleet Cruisers
Cockatoo Dockyard Chief Executive (Mr J.C. Jeremy) has unearthed some fascinating insight into the unique job of work done at Cockatoo Island to provide a new stub bow for the ...
Lone Pine wreath laying
REQUEST THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE BE PASSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA, CAPTAIN L.M. HINCHLIFFE, DSC RAN RTD. QUOTE WREATH LAYING MISSION AT LONE PINE ACCOMPLISHED. ...
Ruby Boyes – Woman Coastwatcher turns 98
Hundreds of well wishers contacted Australia’s only woman coast watcher, Ruby Boyes BEM, on her 98th birthday. Ruby operated on Vanikoro in the Solomons and saved thousands of Allied locals ...
HMAS Mermaid commissioned 4 Dec 1989
MERMAID, commissioned on December 4 , 1989 – Lieut. Cdr. Spencer,R AN – is the second ship in Her Majesty’s Service to bear the name and to work in Australian waters. The first ...
Seal and Porpoise – Minesweepers sold at auction
Finding a new home for two Royal Australian Navy minesweepers caused a few waves at a Sydney auction recently. More than 320 tonnes of steel and maple went under the ...
Dry Land Sailors – The Navy at Gallipoli
Table of Equivalent Ranks
KRIEGSMARINE UNITED STATES NAVY ROYAL NAVY Grossadmiral – – Generaladmiral Fleet Admiral Admiral of the Fleet Admiral Admiral Admiral Vizeadmiral Vice Admiral Vice-Admiral Konteradmiral Rear Admiral Rear-Admiral Kommodore Commodore Commodore ...
Queens Colours – The History of the Colours
Since the earliest times, warriors have carried standards or flags as a distinguishing mark and to serve as a rallying point during battle. To lose the standard often meant that ...
Order of Battle at Midway
The Fighting Tribals
DURING THE 1930S the Tribals were designed to lend heavier gun support to existing flotillas and were influenced by similar contemporary German (Type 1934), Japanese (Asashio Class) and the American ...
The Cruiser Choir
Anon AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR I was organist and choir master at St Andrews Church, Wahroonga. I mention this fact because it has a bearing on the short story ...
Warramunga to the Rescue of SS Starr King
DURING 1943 several Japanese submarines operated off the east coast of Australia. In all about 14 ships were torpedoed by these subs. Surface escorts for ships operating off the coast ...
HMAS Waterhen – a history
Sydney – Emden Action: a short history
IN OCTOBER 1914, Sydney and her sister ship Melbourne detached from the Flagship (Australia) and returned to Australia to form a unit of the escort of the first Anzac convoy ...
FFG5 Builds in Two Dockyards 600 Miles Apart
A TECHNIQUE successfully employed by Germany for the building of U boats is being employed in the building of the two guided missile frigates building in Australia. The frigates FFG5 ...
When it all Began – the Arrival of the First Royal Australian Naval Fleet
Flag Officers Commanding Australian Fleet, 1913-1986
Vice-Admiral Sir George E. Patey, KCMG, KCVO, MVO 1913-1916 Rear-Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham, KCB, MVO 1916-1917 Rear-Admiral Arthur Cavenagh Leveson, CB 1917-1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, KCMG, CB, CMG ...