One of Australia’s foremost maritime historians, Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Ingleton RAN (Ret.), who has died aged 89, was also an accomplished marine artist and etcher, and a fine cartographer. Geoffrey ...
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Book Review: H.M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place in Australian History
HMAS Hawkesbury – The Pathos of Palawan
The Gallipoli Campaign – Pictorial of Naval Ops
These four pictures capture different aspects of the naval side of the operation. ...
Book Review: King of the Australian Coast
Title: King of the Australian Coast. Author: Marsden Horden Publisher: Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press In 1813 James Byrne crossed the Blue Mountains. James who? Byrne did, but we ...
Mystery of paper trail for HMAS Yarra gallantry claims
The Last Chapter of HMAS Moresby II
The first page of the last chapter has just turned over as 1997 will be the final year for HMAS MORESBY (II). She is due to pay off in November ...
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 ...
ADFA Tour of the Gallipoli Battlefield – 1997
HM Barque Endeavour – Visit to Whitby 1997
The Epaulettes of the Father of the RAN – Vice Admiral Sir William Creswell KCMG KBE
Sir William was born at Gibraltar in 1852. At age 13, he entered the Royal Navy, joining the “Britannia” as a Cadet. As a Midshipman in H.M.S. “Phoebe” he enjoyed ...
Obituary: Captain Morton Henry Moyes OBE RAN
The Loss of HMAS Voyager I – Timor, 1942
I would like to comment on the loss of HMAS Voyager I – Monograph No. 25, transcript by Commodore Bryan Cleary, RAN (Rtd). I was serving in HMAS Voyager at the time ...
WW2 Bickley Naval Guns at Rottnest Island W.A.
The Capture of U-570 and Commissioning as HMS Graph – 1941
HMS Calliope in the Great Hurricane at Samoa – 1889
Commander Hugh W S Browning – HMAS Quiberon
The Remarkable Passage of the Wansfell through the Barrier Reef, 1863-1864
CDRE J G Goodenough (1830-1875) – Restoration of Grave
It all began with the monograph of an occasional paper delivered to the Naval Historical Society of Australia, Western Australia Chapter, by Lieutenant Commander G. L. W. Vickridge RFD RANR ...
Obituary: Alan Zammit RAN (1927-1997)
One of the Australian Navy’s foremost enthusiasts, Alan Zammit, was buried on Thursday at South Head Cemetery. A man capable of organising other lives, he had organised his own dying ...
The Origins of the General Service Medal
The Battle of Trafalgar – A Midshipman’s Memoirs, 1805
Tresco – History of the First Sydney Naval Residence of the RAN
Memorial Window – RAN destroyers
At the Chapel of Remembrance, Garden Island, Sydney on Sunday, 15th July 1997 a memorial window commemorating the fifteen RAN destroyers which served in World War II was dedicated and ...