A naval constructor may at first glance appear an odd subject for biography but there was nothing odd about Britain’s greatest builder of modern ships, Stephen Payne. This is the ...
Naval history
The Fleet off Crete
HMAS Cape Leeuwin
Ship Badges – Royal Australian Navy
The Entire Convoy was Sunk
Able Seaman Bob Collins was captured in March 1942 after the sinking of HMAS Perth and USS Houston at the Battle of Sunda Strait. After working on the Burma-Siam Railway, Collins ...
Captain A.S. Rosenthal DSO and Bar, OBE, RAN
The Catapult Fighters
For two years during World War II, from 1941 to 1943, the Catapult Aircraft Merchant Ships, assisted by Fighter Catapult Ships of the Royal Navy, played an important role in ...