On 14 JULY 2012 a short letter was received from Mr Les Heap of Lane Cove providing brief information, which may be historically significant, on the Bathurst Class minesweeper HMAS ...
History - WW2
Book Review: Lost at Sea – Found at Fukushima
Submersible Aircraft Carriers
By Driftwood The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-yonhyaku-gata Sensuikan completed towards the end of WW11 were for many years the largest and potentially the most formidable submarines ever built. Displacing ...
“FORCE H” and Naval Signalman Basil Box
Chief Petty Officer Claude Choules (3.3.1901 – 5.5.2011) – The last veteran of two World Wars
Supply Chief Petty Officer Louis Nicholas Sampson (1907-1941)
HMAS Australia at Dakar 1940
To the current generation Australia being at war with France is unthinkable but this account of events during the early days of WW2 shows the role HMAS Australia played in ...
An Historic Letter
Kamikazes, Suicide Bombers and Us
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 ...
Schooner Gerard – WW2 Service in New Guinea
HMAS Maryborough – Indian Ocean May 1942
The ‘Highball’ bomb/mine
U-Boat Battle – Convoy ONS5
The Royal Australian Navy at War South-West Pacific Area
Malta Revisited
RMS Operations by the RAN in the Pacific – World War II
RMS Operations by the RAN in Europe – World War II
Coastwatchers – Thank God Such Men Lived
Battle of the Bismark Sea
Organisation of Coastwatching in the New Guinea WW 2
The Long Journey Home – Unknown HMAS Sydney Sailor
We Regret to Inform You . . . .
Tales from the Dockyard: Dan Craig’s Medal
Loss of HMAS Yarra – 4 March, 1942
HMAS Yarra, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Robert ‘Oscar’ Rankin, was sunk while defending a convoy against a vastly superior Imperial Japanese Navy squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Nobutake ...