The Story of the Coral Sea Battle and its Significance. In 1942 Australia’s fate was being decided by the battle of the Coral Sea, the turning-point of the Pacific war. ...
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Old Fighting Ships Began Navy Tradition
HMAS Parramatta – the RAN’s First Fighting Ship
HMAS PARRAMATTA, the first fighting ship of the Royal Australian Navy. PARRAMATTA now [Ed. August 1972] rusts on the mud flats above Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River but in the next ...
HMAS Sydney in the North Sea
The four photographs in this series are from the collection of Rear Admiral G. B. Moore, C.B.E. HMAS SYDNEY operated in the North Sea in the last years of World ...
Shenandoah at Port Melbourne, 1865
The arrival of five American ships including the Confederate raider SHENANDOAH in early 1865 startled the residents of Port Melbourne. The raider’s visit triggered an international crisis and involved the British Government in ...