Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the West Australian newspaper late in 1949, and comes to us from Mr Paul Rooke, via his friend and fellow ex-Navy man, Graham Dennis. ...
Naval history
HMAS Adelaide – Boarding Party, Persian Gulf 2004
Book Review: The Indomitable Captain Matthew Flinders, RN
The Indomitable Captain Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy. By Peter Ashley. Published by Pierhead Press, England. rrp A$22.00. Reviewed by Dave Rickard The author, Peter Ashley, has spent nearly four decades ...
U-859 – From Germany to Penang
Singapore Naval Base – Origin and Evolution
HMS Invincible – A Flawed Design
Georgetown, Guiana – The Riots of February 1962
A Naval Career in Clearance Diving – Jake Linton
The Battle of the Atlantic – Contribution by Code Breakers
Letters: Followup on Disappearance of AE1
I was very interested in reading about the disappearance of the AE1 submarine without a trace in 1914. I have an idea that it may have been sucked down by ...
Book Review: Shadow Voyage – Escape of the SS Bremen
Leadership: Vice Admiral Nagumo & the Third Wave Decision
Christmases Past …
1776 Captain James Cook with HM ships Resolution and Discovery, arrived at Kerguelen or Desolation Island and named it after Capitan de Kerguelen, the French navigator. 1789 Entry in New ...
HM Barque Endeavour Replica: Around the Horn 2002
Reflections on the Sydney/Kormoran Battle 1941
Book Review: Japanese Submarine Raiders – 1942
Japanese Submarine Raiders – 1942. A Maritime Mystery. By Steven Carruthers. Caper Publications Pty Ltd, Narrabeen. ISBN 0-9775630-0-4. Hard cover, 264pp Reviewed by Sandy Saunders Being a comparative newcomer to ...
Book Review: The Rattlesnake
The Rattlesnake by Jordan Goodman. Published by Faber and Faber 358 pages, illustrated.ISBN 1 5712 1973 2 Reviewed by Graeme Andrews. Who was Owen Stanley that he could get a ...
The Moresbys and Norfolk Island
Sebastiano Venier-Mediterranean 1941: Tribute to an Enemy
Captain Francis Hixson VD RN and the NSW Naval Forces
Women in the RAN – a Personal Perspective
HMS Byron and the Captain’s Appendix
A Reminiscence – Bombers and MTBs in the Med
Naval Communications – One for the Sparkers 1942
In October 1942, an Australian ‘N’ Class and an RN Destroyer were searching for survivors from a ship torpedoed some 800 miles south of the Cape of Good Hope. The ...