A Bloody Job Well Done The History of the Royal Australian Navy Helicopter Flight Vietnam 1967-1971. Available from HMAS Cerberus 03 59315750. rrp $29.95 Reviewed by Steve Eather One of ...
Naval Aviation
Book Review: Fairey Gannet in Service with the RAN Fleet Air Arm
A Letter from HMAS Sydney
Book Review: Moving Bases
Moving Bases – Royal Navy Maintenance Carriers and MONABS (Mobile Naval Air Bases). By Commander Davis Hobbs, MBE, RN (Rtd). Maritime Books, Lodge Hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 4EL This is ...
A Short History of HMAS Albatross
Reprinted from a Welcome Aboard pamphlet (date unknown) The decision to build an airfield on the land now occupied by the Naval Air Station was taken soon after WWII was ...
By Dawn’s Early Light
Book Review: War in a String Bag
Title: War in a String Bag – Autobiography of WW2 Fleet Air Arm Pilot Charles Lamb Author: Charles Lamb Publisher: Cassell ISBN:0 -304-35841-X This is an autobiographical account of Charles Lamb’s exploits in ...
Queen Bee – Radio-Controlled Target Aircraft of the 1930s
Navies ignore threat of aircraft The emergence of airpower as a formidable weapon at the end of WW I was to a large extent ignored by Allied Navies as a ...
Obituary: Captain Brian de Courcy-Ireland RN (1900-2001)
Joining the Royal Naval College at Osborne on the Isle of Wight in 1913 at the age of 13, Brian de Courcy-Ireland was subjected to the spartan naval discipline of ...
