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 ...
Biographies and personal histories
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 ...
Surrender of Yokosuka Naval Base
Normandy Landing
A Naval Encounter – Captain Trevor Wilson Ross
This Man Howden – Captain Harry L. Howden, CBE, RAN
The Ship’s Bugler – Ordinary Seaman A. Gee
Admiral Sir Harry Rawson GCB, GCMG.
Lower Deck Memories – 1908-1911
Mr. Blakeney wrote these memoirs at the age of 83. He served in the Navy for 49 years, commencing as a cadet in 1906 and ending as captain of the ...
Captain Joseph Burnett RAN
Captain H. M. L. Waller DSO and BAR, RAN
Admiral Dumaresq-A Son of Australia
SYDNEY CAN CLAIM with a great deal of pride that it is the birthplace of a man who has made not only Australian, but Commonwealth Naval History. In the harbourside ...
