Bryan Clark’s article titled ‘Australia’s Forgotten Son’ (Naval Historical Review, December, 1989) was excellent reading. Brian and I have had a good number of dealings relating to the loss of ...
WWII operations
HMAS Australia – Battle of Leyte Gulf
British Destroyer Losses in WW II
Letters – Operational Snakecraft
On reading the recent publication “Fair Winds to Australia”, author Mr Lew Lind, and subsequent article regarding Services Reconnaissance Department in Naval Historical Review (December 1988), I feel obliged to inform Mr ...
History of Service – HMAS Shropshire
This was a pictorial article published in September 1983. The format of the original article doesn’t lend itself to the conventional format, so a PDF-format copy of the article is ...
History of Service – HMAS Canberra
This was a pictorial article published in September 1983. The format of the original article doesn’t lend itself to the conventional format, so a PDF-format copy of the article is ...
History of Service – HMAS Australia
This was a pictorial article published in September 1989. The format of the original article doesn’t lend itself to the conventional format, so a PDF-format copy of the article is ...
The First Battle of Savo Island 8/9 August 1942 – A Correction to the History
The Salvage of the USS New Orleans – 1942
Ships arrive off Sydney Heads under steam, under sail, under tow and even underwater in the case of submarines. But one ship arrived backwards! Amid dramatic circumstances, it was ...
HMAS Westralia – A brief summary of WW2 Service
The War of Words
Few things bugged wartime Australians more than censorship. When it came to news from the far-flung battlefronts where Australians in thousands were involved in the fighting, the lack of knowledge ...
Order of Battle at Midway
Vampire in the Med.
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 ...
Leyte: HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Arunta in the Battle of Surigao Strait
Man Overboard! Warramunga Saga
Island Traders – Four and Twenty Dutchmen
HMAS Waterhen – a history
Perth Survivor story
Strange Orders – in Strange Places
Night of Shipboard Terror – HMAS Nizam
Sailing Ship Apprentice to Captain of the ‘Queens’
ML 817’s New Guinea Operations
New Meaning put into the word Camouflage WARSHIP CAMOUFLAGE came in some weird and wonderful forms during WW II. But for one of the smaller ships of the RAN it ...