THE AUSTRALIA CONTINUED HER REFIT at Garden Island until May 1947. The ship’s company was greatly reduced, but there was always a reasonable number living on board. Harry Adlam left ...
Biographies and personal histories
I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 2)
I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 1)
Garden Island Dockyard 1943-46
A View from the Accounts Branch IT WAS IN 1933 that I first became acquainted with the Royal Australian Navy and HMA Naval Establishments at Garden Island. At that time ...
The Will of an Old Sea Dog
Mr. John Harding was a member of the China Naval Contingent of 1900 and served in the Boxer Rebellion with the Victorian Section. He had been a member of the ...
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 ...
Anti Submarine Warfare – June 1944, English Channel
In command of HMS Loch Killin, one of the first of a new class of frigate, Lieutenant Commander Darling joined the Second Escort Group under the legendary Captain Walker in ...
The RAN – 1918-1919
Admiral Sir Victor Smith, AC, KBE, CB, DSC
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, ...
Captain Steve Arliss RN and HMAS Napier
This thumbnail sketch of Captain Steve Arliss, Captain (D), 7th Destroyer Flotilla was prepared by the late Rear-Admiral Becher as a helpful guidance for the Society’s history of the N ...
Captain James Bradshaw RN Extracts from his Journals 1801-1811
James Goodenough, Sailor and Humanitarian 1830 – 1875
Two Years in HMS Renown 1943-45
I JOINED RENOWN IN MAY 1943, at Rosyth, as a brand-new Lieutenant (E), straight from Keyham; it was my first time in Scotland, and I well remember the difficulty that ...
The Rescue Yacht
HMAS PERTH AND USS HOUSTON were sunk in the very early hours of 1st March 1942, after a terrific fight against overwhelming odds. Many of the Perth survivors were picked ...
An Australian with Jellicoe (1919)
The Life and Naval Career of Vice Admiral Sir Hugh David Stevenson, AC, KBE.
The Legend of Arnold Green
The late Commander Arnold Holbrook Green, O.B.E., D.S.C. and Bar, R.A.N. became a legend in the Royal Australian Navy in his own lifetime. During the war a British Admiral informed ...
Alan Payne – Naval Constructor Supreme
The Entire Convoy was Sunk
Able Seaman Bob Collins was captured in March 1942 after the sinking of HMAS Perth and USS Houston at the Battle of Sunda Strait. After working on the Burma-Siam Railway, Collins ...
Captain A.S. Rosenthal DSO and Bar, OBE, RAN
HMAS Perth Loses her Walrus
Honorary Commodore – Captain A. V. Knight
This biography of Australia’s most distinguished Reserve Officer is told by his former First Lieutenant. Captain A. V. Knight, OBE, DSC, RD, US Legion of Merit RANR(S) Rtd, served with ...
