Ship histories and stories

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 ...

Professor Ahl, a retired German Lieutenant Commander was the pilot of the aircraft of the German raider Kormoran, which sank HMAS Sydney and was sunk by the Australian cruiser. ON ...

WHEN CHURCHILL BROUGHT ADMIRAL FISHER back as First Sea Lord in October 1914, he could not have dreamed that Fisher would soon reintroduce battle cruisers, which Churchill strongly disapproved of ...

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald made his name in command of the small brig Speedy in 1800 when he captured the Spanish frigate El Gamo. His commands of the ...

HMAS QUIBERON, brand new but already bomb scarred while under construction at Cowes, Isle of Wight, was commissioned on 6 July 1942. Of the crew, the Royal Navy contributed the ...

ON 26 NOVEMBER 1812 HMS Samarang, sloop-of-war commanded by Captain William Case, arrived at Port Jackson from Madras with a quantity of specie in dollars for the use of the ...

Mr. Dudley Ricketts was trained in HMAS Tingira and then sent to Williamstown Naval Depot in Victoria in January, 1915, to await draft to a sea going ship. That ship ...

In August 1942, a Japanese force surprised the Allies at Savo Island. Amongst the ships sunk was the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra. A month after her loss, the British Government ...

by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG, PC, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCVO, DSO, FRS. An Extract from an account of the sinking of HMS Kelly in ...

‘TO HEAR OF HIS OLD SHIP BEING SOLD to the shipbreakers is, to the sailor, like the death of an old pal.’ So wrote Mr. A. C. Newton, R.N. (Rtd.), ...

HMAS STUART WENT BY MANY NAMES in her long career. In her youth in the Mediterranean Fleet she was ‘The White Lady’, later she became the ‘Grey Old Lady’ and ...