Alongside Pennant Hills Road in Carlingford, a Sydney suburb, is a memorial comprising a pond, rocks, the lettering K13 and brass plates. Of those who have seen it, how many ...
Naval technology
Helm Orders
HELM ORDERS GIVEN in British ships prior to 1934 were relative to tiller movement irrespective of whether steering was by tiller or wheel. The orders of the Officer of the ...
Book Review: The Kellys
The Kellys – British J, K & N Class Destroyers of World War II By Christopher Langtree Published by Chatham Publishing, Kent, England Distributed in Australia by Peribo 58 Beaumont Street, ...
Torpedo Pioneers – 14 November Anniversary
Extract from The Times of London, 14 November 2002. Forwarded by David Simmonds (Member, WA) A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE has been noticed on the anniversaries of two of the pioneer developers ...
Darwin’s Floating Dry-Dock
RAN Aircraft Hoisting – Changing Techniques
Book Review: Nothing to do with me, I’m Radar!
Title: Nothing to do with me, I’m Radar! Author: P.R.H. (Lofty) Watson Publisher: Self-published On the inside cover, this book describes itself as “a segment of Royal Australian Navy history, covering ...
Hedy Lamarr, Movie Star (and Inventor of torpedo-control )
The Hammock
The issue hammock, the beloved pusser sack – one of man’s most endearing inventions – has vanished, alas, from Navy messdecks and establishments. It has been replaced by the impersonal ...
In Remorse Mode about the Morse Code!
Extracts from The Sydney Morning Herald (Kendall Hill) and The Sun-Herald (Peter Robinson) It revolutionised the way humans communicated long before the likes of the telephone, the radio and e-mail. ...
Letters: Astern Refuelling: HMAS Brisbane (1)
Re Naval Historical Review December 1997: HMAS BRISBANE The photograph of HMAS BRISBANE shows the ship under way and fuelling by the astern method. The tanker in this case is almost certainly ...
Book Review: Contact!
Title: “CONTACT! HMAS RUSHCUTTER and Australia’s Submarine Hunters 1939 -1946.” The disproportionate contribution of Australia to Allied victory in World War II, bearing in mind her limited resources, is common knowledge. ...
Who “Invented” Radar?
N Class – The Bird Cage
Letters: Development and Use of oxy-acetylene
I wish to congratulate you on the content of the December 1992 issue of the Naval Historical Review, I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially your follow up article on the S.S. ...
Development of the Australian Submarine Force
Book Review: The Naval Steam Reciprocating Engine
Title: The Naval Steam Reciprocating Engine Author: Norman Rivett Published by: Naval Historical Society of Australia Card No. ISBN 09587 456 0 9 The Naval Historical Society of Australia is to ...
Home, Home on the Range: Degaussing
The Fighting Tribals
DURING THE 1930S the Tribals were designed to lend heavier gun support to existing flotillas and were influenced by similar contemporary German (Type 1934), Japanese (Asashio Class) and the American ...
Evolution of the Royal Navy – Wood to Iron, Sail to Steam
The Battle for the Boom
SYDNEY HARBOUR has always presented a racy scene! Yachts thrash about in all manner of class events, Sydney’s ‘Great Ferry Race’ captures the imagination of all who pack vantage points ...
Evolution of the Capital Ship 1906-1914
DREADNOUGHTS – the name given to battleships and battlecruisers of the navy, were ships to inspire men’s imaginations and by their majestic increase in tonnage and fire power, became the ...
Oilers in the Royal Australian Navy
IN THE BEGINNING there was COAL!! Lots of it. Dirty, dusty, nostril filling and seemingly unlimited in supply. Coaling Ship was an evolution in which everybody was engaged in the ...
Some notes on identification of naval guns
NOW THAT THE SOCIETY is compiling a record of naval relics around Australia it might be an idea to pass on a few tips that may help positive identification of ...
Occasional Paper 170: The Eight Inch Gun Relining Programme
June 1982 edition of the Naval Historical Review (all rights reserved) When the Second World War broke out the RAN possessed two 10,000 ton County class cruisers armed with BL ...