On reading the recent publication “Fair Winds to Australia”, author Mr Lew Lind, and subsequent article regarding Services Reconnaissance Department in Naval Historical Review (December 1988), I feel obliged to inform Mr ...
History - WW2
The Loss of the SS Ceramic – December 1942
The First Battle of Savo Island 8/9 August 1942 – A Correction to the History
Order of Battle at Midway
Services Reconnaissance Department Memorial
Perhaps the least known of service memorials in Australia is that to the Services Reconnaissance Department which is located on Garden Island, Western Australia. It is appropriate the memorial has ...
Changi and the HMAS Perth Survivors
Leyte: HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Arunta in the Battle of Surigao Strait
Man Overboard! Warramunga Saga
Island Traders – Four and Twenty Dutchmen
HMAS Waterhen – a history
HMAS Platypus & The Darwin Raid – 1942
Wartime Submarine Service
HMAS Perth POW – Moji Maru Incident
Perth and the Aftermath
ML 817’s New Guinea Operations
New Meaning put into the word Camouflage WARSHIP CAMOUFLAGE came in some weird and wonderful forms during WW II. But for one of the smaller ships of the RAN it ...
HMAS Platypus in Darwin during blitz 19 February 1942
HMAS PLATYPUS was built in England during WWI as a Submarine Tender to the ’J’ class Submarines and as such she had workshops, oil stowage and storage for torpedoes. Platypus ...
Naval Chapel Windows for Cruisers Unveiled
Richelieu – The Ship That Never Fought
Prisoner of War Rescues
HMAS Manoora Enters the Pacific War
Extracts from the War Diary of former member, the late A.K. Chatto HMAS MANOORA sailed from Sydney at 1800 Saturday, November 22 1941. After clearing the swept channel we took ...
Gunboats on the Yangtse: 1920 to 1937
Book Review: Yield Not To The Wind
Yield Not To The Wind By: Margaret Clarence. Published by the author This is an easy book to read, as the subject is extremely interesting, and once you pick it ...
HMNZS Irirangi – NZ Naval Base
Burra Bra — Ferry and Warship
A SLEEK PASSENGER FERRY for the Sydney to Manly service was launched at the shipyards of Morts Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd., Woolwich, New South Wales, on 17th June 1908. ...
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 ...