In naval terms a flotilla is a small fleet. The role of the flotilla leader was to operate as the spearhead of the group of destroyers, acting as the headquarters ...
Naval history
The RAN Contribution to the ‘Spirit of Anzac’
Battle Honour Board – HMAS Kanimbla
At a recent ceremony held onboard HMAS Kanimbla (CMDR Tim Byles, RAN) the ship’s recently refurbished Battle Honour Board was re-dedicated by Chaplain Col Acton, RAN. The Battle Honours Board ...
An Historic Letter
Type of Boy Required . . .
The Royal Australian Naval College in its early years was certainly definitive about what type of entrant was thought most suitable for officer training. A look at the 1918 edition ...
The Navy and a Yacht Race
Observation or Espionage
Kamikazes, Suicide Bombers and Us
The RAN without an Aircraft Carrier – What If…
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 ...
Letters: The Naming of RAN Ships
Dear Sir, …In your article ‘The Naming of RAN Ships’, there was not even the sniff of a name of a ship of the RAN Hydrographic Service, (now the Australian ...
Schooner Gerard – WW2 Service in New Guinea
HMAS Maryborough – Indian Ocean May 1942
The RAN and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
The ‘Highball’ bomb/mine
Australian Sailors at Zeebrugge, 1918
U-Boat Battle – Convoy ONS5
The Story of the Willie D
The Naming of RAN Ships
The Royal Australian Navy at War South-West Pacific Area
Malta Revisited
RMS Operations by the RAN in the Pacific – World War II
The Society’s 40th Anniversary
RMS Operations by the RAN in Europe – World War II
Book Review: The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953
The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953 By Peter V Nash. University Press of Florida, USA. ISBN 978 0 8130 3367 9 Reviewed by Tony Howland ...
