THE VUNG TAU FERRY – HMAS SYDNEY and Escort Ships (Vietnam 1965-72) By Rodney Nott and Noel Payne 1998 has certainly been a bumper year for Australian Naval histories concerning the ...
Ship histories and stories
About HMAS Tingira
HMAS Tingira, often called The Cradle of the R.A.N., lay in the middle of Rose Bay from 25th April 1912 until 1927 as a training ship for lower deck new entries. ...
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 ...
History of the “Consuela” Figurehead at Garden Island
The launch of HMAS Warramunga II
[Extracts from a letter from Marsden Hordern: …I was recently on Three Hammock Island with the 87 year old John Alliston – you may have read his book, “Destroyer Man‘ ...
HMAS Canberra’s Crest – Return from P&O Liner Canberra
On the 24th April, 1964 a small group of survivors from HMAS Canberra met on board the P&O Liner Canberra to present to the captain a replica of HMAS Canberra’s crest, i.e., the ...
Torpedo Boat 191
ENTERPRIZE
Book Review: H.M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place in Australian History
HMAS Hawkesbury – The Pathos of Palawan
Mystery of paper trail for HMAS Yarra gallantry claims
The Last Chapter of HMAS Moresby II
The first page of the last chapter has just turned over as 1997 will be the final year for HMAS MORESBY (II). She is due to pay off in November ...
HM Barque Endeavour – Visit to Whitby 1997
The Loss of HMAS Voyager I – Timor, 1942
I would like to comment on the loss of HMAS Voyager I – Monograph No. 25, transcript by Commodore Bryan Cleary, RAN (Rtd). I was serving in HMAS Voyager at the time ...
WW2 Bickley Naval Guns at Rottnest Island W.A.
The Capture of U-570 and Commissioning as HMS Graph – 1941
HMS Calliope in the Great Hurricane at Samoa – 1889
Commander Hugh W S Browning – HMAS Quiberon
The Remarkable Passage of the Wansfell through the Barrier Reef, 1863-1864
Book Review: U-Boat Far from Home
LUIGI DURAND DE LA PENNE – Italian human torpedo
Few people who saw the Italian Guided Missile Destroyer LUIGI DURAND DE LA PENNE during her visit to Sydney will know of this story of the person for whom she was ...
Belconnen Naval Wireless Station and HMAS Harman 1939-1996
Atlantic Rescue of Coastal Command Sunderland -1940
Holbrook – Submarine Town, Australia
In December 1914, Lieutenant Douglas Norman Holbrook, RN, captain of a small old submarine, B11, penetrated the narrows in the Dardanelles and sank the Turkish cruiser, MESUDIYEH. This earned him ...