After the naval battle of Matapan most of the fleet returned to Alexandria to replenish supplies. Two cruisers of the 7th Cruiser Squadron HMS Ajax and HMAS Perth did not ...
Biographies and personal histories
Ruby Boyes – Woman Coastwatcher turns 98
Hundreds of well wishers contacted Australia’s only woman coast watcher, Ruby Boyes BEM, on her 98th birthday. Ruby operated on Vanikoro in the Solomons and saved thousands of Allied locals ...
I’ve Been To Bali Too
Cedric Ashton
Rear Admiral Farncomb 1899-1971
Vice Admiral Sir John Collins, KBE, CB
Vice-Admiral Sir John Collins, who has died in Sydney aged 90, was Australia’s most celebrated sailor of the 1939-45 War. His destruction of the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni at the ...
HMAS Sydney-SMS Emden Action at Cocos Islands 1914 – A German Survivor’s Account
Diary of John Ernest James – Part 2
Written whilst serving in HMAS Sydney II This is the second instalment of the diaries of John Ernest James. He was in the Mediterranean Sea in HMAS Sydney and took ...
Armstrong, J M – Naval Wartime Hero (Part 2)
Diary of John Ernest James – Part 1
Written whilst serving in HMAS Sydney II John Ernest James was born at Gateshead England, and came to Australia with his family in 1928. He joined the RAN when he ...
Armstrong, J M – Naval Wartime Hero (Part 1)
Commodore J.M. Armstrong, CBE, DSO, RAN 1900-1988
Read at the funeral service at St. Brelade’s Church, Jersey, January 6th, 1989 by Michael Marett- Crosby. JOHN MALET ARMSTRONG, Jamie to his wife and friends, was born in Sydney, ...
Rear Admiral Farncomb
BETWEEN MAY 4 AND MAY 8 1942 the battle of the Coral Sea took place. The Coral Sea Battle was just one of the many highlights of the Naval career ...
The Cruiser Choir
Anon AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR I was organist and choir master at St Andrews Church, Wahroonga. I mention this fact because it has a bearing on the short story ...
Sons of the Sea – 1947 RAN College Entry
Man Overboard! Warramunga Saga
HMAS Swan (Sloop) 1937-38
Perth Survivor story
Lost Letter Throws New Light on Sydney-Emden Action
Wartime Submarine Service
HMAS Perth POW – Moji Maru Incident
Perth and the Aftermath
Turkish Treatment of British Naval Prisoners
Ruby Boye – Coastwatcher Heroine
HMAS Manoora Enters the Pacific War
Extracts from the War Diary of former member, the late A.K. Chatto HMAS MANOORA sailed from Sydney at 1800 Saturday, November 22 1941. After clearing the swept channel we took ...