It was only three years after the close of WW I that Gerard, as we knew her, was built by the famous Krupp Company in, of all places, Kiel in ...
WWII operations
HMAS Maryborough – Indian Ocean May 1942
The ‘Highball’ bomb/mine
U-Boat Battle – Convoy ONS5
The Story of the Willie D
The Royal Australian Navy at War South-West Pacific Area
Malta Revisited
RMS Operations by the RAN in the Pacific – World War II
RMS Operations by the RAN in Europe – World War II
Battle of the Bismark Sea
Book Review: Sydney – Cipher and Search
Organisation of Coastwatching in the New Guinea WW 2
The Long Journey Home – Unknown HMAS Sydney Sailor
The Story of a Hundred Gallon Barrel
Leadership: Admiral Raymond Spruance, USN
Loss of HMAS Yarra – 4 March, 1942
HMAS Yarra, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Robert ‘Oscar’ Rankin, was sunk while defending a convoy against a vastly superior Imperial Japanese Navy squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Nobutake ...
RANVR – The Forgotten Few
Lifeboat No. 7 – 23 days at sea
Report of Engagement between HMAS Sydney and Kormoran
Obituary: Reinhold von Malapert
Torres Strait – Small-ship Refuelling Stopovers
Thursday Island and nearby Horn Island in the Torres Strait were always welcome stopovers for fuel or water for so many WWII Fairmile patrol vessels as they ‘went north’ to ...