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History - general

End of an Era: Sail Training at Royal Australian Naval College

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2022 ·

By LCDR David Jones RAN Changing Times From 2022, sailing has been removed from the initial training curriculum for new entry officers at RANC. Non-motorised small boat handling, sailing and ...

Letter: Exmouth Gulf – Submariners’ Haven – Onslow

Letter Writer · Mar 1, 2022 ·

Dear Editor, With reference to the Fuel Storage Tanks segment of the Exmouth Gulf – Submariners’ Haven article by Colin Randall published in the December edition of the Naval Historical ...

A Brief History of the Australian Hydrographic Service

A.N. Other · Mar 1, 2022 ·

By Kevin Slade, PSM & John Perryman, CSM  This article first appeared in the 2020 edition of Navy Outlook and is reproduced by kind permission of the editor of that ...

Weather Islands

A.N. Other · Mar 1, 2022 ·

By Malcolm Riley1  This article first appeared in the September 2020 edition of Afloat and is reproduced with the kind permission of the editor of that magazine and of the ...

The Queensland Maritime Museum

Editorial Staff · Mar 1, 2022 ·

The Queensland Maritime Museum (QMM) is facing an uncertain future as a number of recent unfortunate events have conspired to undermine the credibility of this important institution which until recent ...

The Australian Antarctic Territory and the Australian Antarctic Research Survey Ship Nuyina

Editorial Staff · Dec 29, 2021 ·

With the arrival of the new Australian Antarctic ship Nuyina at her home port of Hobart it is appropriate to look back to the beginning of our association with the ...

Occasional Paper 127: Commitment, Persistence and Science; Behind the Search for HMAS Sydney II

A.N. Other · Dec 7, 2021 ·

  By Commodore Bob Trotter OAM RAN & FIEAust (Retd)© Bob Trotter is an engineer and submarine specialist. He retired from the RAN in 1998 and after a period with ...

Occasional Paper 126: A New Crane for Sydney’s Skyline

David Michael · Nov 2, 2021 ·

By John Jeremy Cranes are a regular feature of Sydney’s skyline, particularly the many construction cranes which, at a glance, reveal the state of the construction industry in Australia’s largest ...

Occasional Paper 124: Arctic Sea Routes: From Dream to Reality

A.N. Other · Nov 2, 2021 ·

By Bob Hetherington The following story was first published in the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) Volunteers’ Quarterly newsletter ‘All Hands’, Issue 112 in September 2020. Some dreamers always maintained ...

Occasional Paper 121: Captain Morton Henry Moyes, OBE, RAN  1896-1981

A.N. Other · Sep 30, 2021 ·

By Martin Linsley Morton Moyes was a man to admire. ‘He was a true leader – a simple man – a modest man – in very truth a gentle man.’ ...

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