HMS Encounter served on the Australia Station and was later commissioned into the RAN. She played a vital role in defence of the eastern coast of Australia, and the anti raider patrols in the South West Pacific. She was regarded as “more beloved than any other unit of our fleet”. ...
History - Between the wars
Book Review: War to War: Australia’s Navy 1919-1939
War to War: Australia’s Navy 1919-1939 by Bob Nicholls. Australian Military History Publications, Sydney, 2012. ISBN 9780 98077451. rrp $35. (02) 9542 6771 Bob Nicholls died in 2010. After serving ...
Translators in the RAN – Theodore Eric Nave
By Sub-Lieutenant Y.L. Zhang This essay came a close second in the Naval History Prize of the New Entry Officer Course intake No. 46. Sub- Lieutenant Yanyi Zhang is a ...
Supply Chief Petty Officer Louis Nicholas Sampson (1907-1941)
The Great Depression and the Navy
The worldwide Global Financial Crisis which originated in the United States in 2007 and the Australian reaction to it is still fresh in most peoples’ minds. The description of the ...
The British Navy Between the Wars
(A lecture delivered to the naval history course of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy) FAILURE The popular picture of British strategy and the ...
HMAS Anzac (I) – Flotilla Leader
Book Review: A Hard Fought Ship
A Hard Fought Ship, The Story of HMS Venomous. By Robert J Moore and John A Rodgaard. ISBN 978-0-9559382-0-7. Published by Holywell House Publishing, Portsmouth, UK. RRP is UK£18.99. It can ...
The RAN and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
Organisation of Coastwatching in the New Guinea WW 2
Leadership: Sir Ernest Shackleton – 1874-1922
The History of the Radford-Collins Agreement
Letters: Followup on Singapore Naval Base
Dear Editor, The article ‘Singapore Naval Base Origin and Evolution’ published in the March 2007 issue of the Naval Historical Review contains a number of issues that warrant clarification. The ...
Singapore Naval Base – Origin and Evolution
HMA Anti-Submarine School – The Rushcutter Story
HMAS Perth Part2 – Outbreak of war
This is part 2 of an hitherto unpublished personal account was given to the Editor shortly before the death of the author, together with several other brief accounts of his ...
The Commissioning of HMAS Perth, 1939
This is part 1 of an hitherto unpublished personal account was given to the Editor shortly before the death of the author, together with several other brief accounts of his ...
Commander Frederick Darley RN & the Wanhsien Incident
Book Review: Nelson to Vanguard
Title: Nelson to Vanguard, Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 Author: D.K. Brown Publisher: Chatham Publishing Nelson to Vanguard, Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 is the final volume in a three ...
HMAS Adelaide – Malaita Expedition 1927
Letter by HRN Prince of Wales from HMS Renown in Sydney
One of our subsection’s members is an ex-bandsman by the name of Hector Napier. He has just turned 86 and is a very spry young bloke – never missing one ...
The RAN in the Black Sea
IN 1918 the Allies had cast their lot with the White Russians in the savage civil war which was raging in Russia. They offered to give support to any state ...
Gunboats on the Yangtse: 1920 to 1937
HMAS Australia – Visit to Gallipoli – 1936
During the Abyssinian crisis in 1936, H.M.A.S. Australia and Sydney were serving with the Mediterranean Fleet, the former having been on exchange with H.M.S. Sussex and the latter was temporarily serving ...
A Peaceful Scene – Sydney 1921
H.M.A. Ships Encounter and Australia with Huon and two other “Rivers”, and Tattoo and two other S class boats laid up in Sydney Harbour in 1921. ...