The commanding officer attempted to light his cigarette. He had gathered his officers in the wardroom to brief them on a dramatic change to the ship’s 1967 program. HMAS Duchess ...
Biographies and personal histories
Coastwatchers – Thank God Such Men Lived
Erle Alwin Greglach Boyd
WW1 Losses || “Too Far Away Thy Grave to See…”
Louis Antoine de Bougainville and his Exploration of the Pacific
Search for Bracegirdle Sundial
Professor Dutton is a member of the Arts and Library Committee of the Newcastle Club One of Australia’s most distinguished naval officers was Rear Admiral Sir Leighton S. Bracegirdle, KCVO, ...
Address to Trafalgar Night Dinner
The Australians at Jutland
Admirable Ancestors
Organisation of Coastwatching in the New Guinea WW 2
Obituary: Jenny of ‘Jenny’s Side Party’, Hong Kong
Mrs Ng Muk Kah, BEM Generations of sailors who visited Hong Kong will mourn the death of Jenny. She was a much loved living legend who, for all the colony’s ...
Leadership: Sir Ernest Shackleton – 1874-1922
AE2 – Unsung Hero of Gallipoli
A Letter from HMAS Sydney
Leadership: Captain Alfred T. Mahan USN
Lifeboat No. 7 – 23 days at sea
Letters: Obituary of Rear Admiral Dovers
Dear Sir, I note Tony Howland’s obituary [your Editor assures you he is in fact alive and well!] published in the December 07 edition. I have also read other obituaries ...
Book Review: Flinders Year 1947
Japanese Surrender in Toyko-from Warramunga’s Surgeon
The Midshipman – A Corvette Wartime Experience
Book Review: Cochrane the Dauntless
Cochrane the Dauntless. The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane. By David Cordingly. Published by Bloomsbury and available from Allen and Unwin Book Publishers This is yet another biography of ...
Obituary: Rear Admiral W. J. Dovers, CBE, DSC (RAN, Ret’d)
Leadership: Vice Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins
The Story of Ordnance Artificer Gordon Robertson
In the quiet Presbyterian Section of GoreHill Cemetery (Sydney), only 50 metres or so from the busy Pacific Highway upon which the people of the city travel to and from ...
