The 10,000 ton cruiser HMAS Australia left Sydney on the 4th December 1934, en-route for Brisbane to pick up HRH the Duke of Gloucester for his return to the United Kingdom. ...
Ship histories and stories
Extracts from the Diary of Leading Signalman G.A. Wakely – HMS Swiftsure
17th April 1908: Ship ordered to sea daybreak 18th. 18th April 1908: Sailed from Malta at 0400 and made speed of 12 knots but were soon ordered to increase to ...
HMAS Bataan
The Last of the Australian Built Tribal Class THE LAST OF THE THREE Tribal class destroyers built at Cockatoo Island was to have been named Kurnai after an Aboriginal Tribe ...
Warramunga’s Badge
WHEN HMAS WARRAMUNGA commissioned for service in November 1942 no official badge had been authorised for the ship, and being wartime this was of no great consequence. Early in 1943 ...
Bomb Alley, 1942
IN 1942 THE BOMB ALLEY of this story extended 400 miles along the central Mediterranean with every mile within 30 minutes of enemy airfields. At the eastern end the strategically ...
Corvette Maryborough 1941-1946
HMAS MARYBOROUGH was built by Walker’s Ltd at Maryborough, Queensland and commissioned by Lieutenant Commander G. L. Cant, RAN on 15th June, 1941. Known as the Bathurst class of mine-sweepers, ...
Coastal Motor Boats – 1916
In the early summer of 1915 three young Naval Officers from the Harwich Destroyer Force (Lieutenants Hampden, Bremner and Anson) conceived the idea of a small fast motor boat, capable ...
On the Gunline – HMAS Perth’s 3rd deployment in Vietnam
Slow Boat to China – USS Wachusett, 1865
HMS Nelson, Armour Belted Cruiser 1882
IF A SINGULAR BRITISH WARSHIP could be called the harbinger of the formation of the Royal Australian Navy, that warship is HMS Nelson. The Colonial Defences Act of 1865 provided ...
HMS/HMVS Nelson – 120 gun Line-of-Battleship 1814
THIS THREE-DECKER BATTLESHIP was laid down in December 1809 and launched on 4th July 1814. Nelson was the first three-decker to be launched in England after the victory at Trafalgar ...
Sinking of Sydney by Kormoran – Report by pilot of Kormoran’s aircraft
The Loss of HMS Kuala, 1942
The History of HMAS Tingira
HMS Nestor at Jutland
HMS Amethyst – the Yangtse Incident 1948
HMS Renown – Battle-cruiser 1916 – 1948
The Cruise of the Speedy – c1840
Genesis of the Australia
THAT THE FIRST AUSTRALIA of the RAN was a Dreadnought battle cruiser was largely due to a combination of accidents, rather than any coherent policy on the part of Great ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp – Antarctic Research 1947-1948
SPACE WILL NOT ALLOW ME to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1947-1948
Space will not allow me to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp mission, ...
