Written by L.J. Lind, B.E.M., F.A.I.A., Dip. J. – Foundation President Beginnings On 25 May, 1970, the 348th anniversary of the arrival of the first British ship on the Australian coast ...
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 5
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 3
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 4
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 2
Services Reconnaissance Department Memorial
Perhaps the least known of service memorials in Australia is that to the Services Reconnaissance Department which is located on Garden Island, Western Australia. It is appropriate the memorial has ...
The Silent Service of HMAS Bingera
IT IS A PLEASURE to present a pictorial profile of a ship that served the Royal Australian Navy in comparative obscurity. HMAS Bingera, according to the official histories, never fired ...
Stuart sinks Gondar (1941)
The Navy – Old and New
THE NAVY IN THE EARLY YEARS of the century prided itself in being capable of doing anything anybody else could do and do it better. It was the last years ...
The Holman Projector
The emergencies of war and the unpreparedness of Britain for a world war have tested the inventiveness of the nation to build new and often quite bizarre weapons. World War ...
The Fleet off Crete
The Epic of HMS Calliope
Banjo Paterson, the Australian poet, once deserted his dusty sunlit plains to write a poem of the navy. The subject he chose was the saga of HMS Calliope at Apia ...
Admiral Sir Harry Rawson GCB, GCMG.
The Four Lives of HMS Wexford
MOST WARSHIPS have inbuilt lasting qualities. HMS Victory has weathered almost two centuries, and several United States ships of war are almost as venerable. HMS Wexford, a later Hunt class ...
