No other sea presents so many mysteries to the naval historian as the Aegean. Battles have been lost and won in this island-studded waterway since antiquity but none were more ...
Battles and operations
Book Review: Blue Watch, All the Blue Watch
“Blue Watch, All the Blue Watch” By John Allerton I have not read the “1st Impression” of John Allerton’s book but this “2nd Impression” of this record of his service ...
The Two Falkland Islands Wars – 1914 (Part 1)
HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran – Possible and Probable Search Areas
Occasional Paper 187: HMAS Australia – the 1940 Dakar Debacle
HMAS Warramunga – Battle For The Philippines 1945
Battle Of The Bismarck Sea – 1943
Faces of the Past (early 1942)
Top Row (l-r) Captain Esdale, Paymaster Capt. Trivett, Lt Cmdr Lewis, Lt Cmdr Wilkinson, Engineer Capt. Doyle. Middle Row (l-r) Commander Clark, Commander Langford, Commodore Muirhead-Gould, Paymaster Cmdr E. Kinesford-Smith, Stubbs Chaplain Bottom ...
Loss of HMAS Altana – New Years Day 1946
In the Pacific region during World War II the Royal Australian Navy was caught up in history’s greatest naval conflict in which numerous large sea/air battles were fought. There were ...
Leyte Gulf – the RAN in the Biggest Naval Battle of all time
Loss of HMAS Canberra – 9 August 1942
Search for the German Asiatic Squadron – 1914-1916
MS Ramses – 1942 – Blockade Runner
Letters: U Boats in the Atlantic
I enjoyed Sub Lieutenant A J Staal’s essay printed in your December 1991 issue of The Naval Historical Review. However, I would take issue with his statement “they continued their ...
Obituary: Commodore Rodney Rhoades – The man who fed Tobruk
Commodore Rodney Rhoades RAN, who commanded HMAS Vendetta of the celebrated “Scrap Iron Flotilla” which supplied Tobruk during the World War II siege, has died in Sydney. He was 83. ...
HMAS Sydney – Rottnest Island Guardship
It is a little known fact that HMAS SYDNEY II, one of the Royal Australian Navy’s major warships in World War Two “hid” off Rottnest Island at the approaches to ...
Letters: HMAS Sydney and Kormoran
HMAS Sydney – A Tale of Two Warships
RAN – First Naval Casualty – Loss Of AE1
Naval Operations against Turkey leading to ANZAC
HMS Barham – Survivors Account Of Sinking
Letters: A South Atlantic Incident
I wish to make the following correction to my article ”A SOUTH ATLANTIC INCIDENT” published in the September, 1990 edition of the Naval Historical Review. An ex Communicator might be forgiven ...
Letters: Attack on HMAS Australia
Having read the various accounts of the dawn attack on HMAS Australia on 21st October 1944, as contained in the Society’s publications, may I submit the following observation on the ...
Book Review: Action Stations Coral Sea
Chris Coulthard-Clark, Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd 157 pages, illustrated. This thoroughly researched account of the first important, sea battle in the South Pacific in World War 2 is ...
Book Review: The Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney
Lew Lind, Bellrope Press, 74 pages with illustrations and maps. The Japanese midget submarine attack on ships in Sydney Harbour occurred almost fifty years ago and yet is still a ...