After reading Commodore Loxton’s letter to the Editor and his article concerning the Zeebrugge raid (in the last two issues of the Naval Historical Review), I thought a short letter ...
WWI operations
Letters: St Nazaire Raid
Your article on the story of the St. Nazaire raid – “[The raid on St Nazaire 1942]” – left me rather amused. In the first instance the ship mentioned should ...
Letters – Australians at Zeebrugge
In the last issue of the Review you published my request for information regarding R.A.N. participation in the raid on Zeebrugge in 1918. Lieutenant Colonel John Bullen of Canberra was ...
Admiral Sir Victor Crutchley – Award of the Victoria Cross
The AE2 Graves
In the Baghdad North Gate Cemetery (Iraq) are the graves or memorials of four RAN sailors who died during World War I. Who were these men? How did they come ...
Letters – Unacknowledged heroes
I have read with interest the comments in the Naval Historical Review on HMAS YARRA and Leading Seaman Taylor’s heroic action. I also believe this last action of YARRA’S has ...
The Gallipoli Campaign – Pictorial of Naval Ops
These four pictures capture different aspects of the naval side of the operation. ...
The Tragedy of ‘Q’ Ship HMS Stonecrop – 1917
Q-ship sinks U-boat – HMS Stonecrop – 1917
Submarine Sinks Battleship – Holbrook VC
Navy Blue Anzacs – The RAN in the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign
Battle of Jutland and Leyte Gulf – A comparison
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Convoy System – WW1 and WW2 Comparisons
In World War I the convoy system was not instituted until May 1917, whilst in World War II convoys were quickly organised soon after war was declared in September 1939. ...
The Two Falkland Islands Wars – 1914 (Part 1)
HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran – Possible and Probable Search Areas
Search for the German Asiatic Squadron – 1914-1916
HMAS Sydney – A Tale of Two Warships
RAN – First Naval Casualty – Loss Of AE1
Naval Operations against Turkey leading to ANZAC
Book Review: First In Last Out – The Navy at Gallipoli
First in, Last out – the Navy at Gallipoli By T R Frame and G J Swinden This is a timely book. It is 75 years since the landings at ...
Not the Dockyard Please
Australian Naval History on 4 May 1990
HMAS SYDNEY, (frigate), visited the French port of Toulon while on her circumnavigation of the world, following the commemoration services at Gallipoli in April. She was the first ship of ...
Australian Naval History on 25 April 1990
Three RAN vessels, (HMA Ships SYDNEY, TOBRUK and OXLEY), represented the RAN at the 75th Anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli. SYDNEY was chosen as her namesake had escorted the ...
