A short account of some wartime experiences – Awarded Second Prize, Naval Officers Club Literary Prize 2001 THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR in September 1939 caught most people, ...
Naval history
U Boat surrender in Loch Eriboll – 8th to 23rd May 1945
American Plans for Invading New Zealand & Australia – Part1
Book Review: The Royal Navy in Australia 1900-2000
The Royal Navy in Australia 1900-2000 By Ross Gillett and Vic Jeffrey Published by Maritime Books, Lodge Hill, Liskeard in Cornwall, PL14 4EL, United Kingdom Recommended Retail Price is not ...
Book Review: Fairmile ships of the Royal Australian Navy
Fairmile ships of the Royal Australian Navy by Peter Evans, AM Australian Military History Publications, 13 Veronica Place, Loftus. 2232. $40.00 Reviewed by Max Thomson Of all the ‘wet’ ships ...
Book Review: Kill the Tiger
Kill the Tiger By Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin Published by Hodder Headline Australia. $29.95 Reviewed by John Jones “Kill the Tiger” is the story of Rimau, the special forces ...
Book Review: HMS Vanguard 1944 -1960 Britain’s Last Battleship
HMS Vanguard 1944 -1960 Britain’s Last Battleship By Neil McCart Published by Maritime Books. The book is available through Maritime Press on e-mail: www.navybooks.com Reviewed by Ross Gillett Britain’s last ...
Book Review: So Long Singapore
So Long Singapore by Hugh Campbell and Ron Lovell. Reasonably priced at $25.00 plus $7 postage and packing, this book is thoroughly recommended. Available from the author (Hugh Campbell) at: ...
Book Review: The Shores of Gallipoli
Title: The Shores of Gallipoli Author: Tom Frame. Publisher: Hale & Iremonger 2000. Reviewed by: Peter Colthorpe. The legend of ANZAC is well known by all but few know of ...
Book Review: We Seemed To Get There
Title: We Seemed to Get There Author: Captain Herbert W. Bolles, MN Ever wondered what the Merchant Navy did, both in War and Peace? This is a truly superb book – an ...
Book Review: Summary & Review – RAN in WW2
Title: Summary and Review of the RAN War Effort and Activities September 1939 to August 1945 Publisher: Naval Historical Society of Australia (Inc) [Ed: The Society recently published this book] ...
Book Review: HMAS Murchison
Title: HMAS Murchison – Baron of the Han Author: Robert E Capes Publisher: Naval Historical Society of Australia (Inc) [Ed: The Society recently published this book] This book was written ...
Book Review: Pioneers of the Royal Australian Navy
Title: Pioneers of the Royal Australian Navy Author: Lofty Batt Publisher: Naval Historical Society of Australia (Inc) [Ed: The Society recently published this book] New Zealander Lofty Batt joined the Royal Navy’s ...
Stamps Honour British and French Explorers of New Holland
Amid the rivalry of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815), France and Britain sponsored voyages of discovery to complete the charting of the Australian coastline and further scientific knowledge ...
RANVR Yachtsmen in World War II
Figureheads – A Short History
A figurehead (or more correctly figure head was a carved figure, usually human but quite often animal, fixed to a ship’s stem high in the box, just beneath the bowsprit. ...
The History of Nelson’s Flagship – HMS Victory
WW2 Coastal Defence on Christmas Island
During their recent Indian ocean deployment on anti-illegal immigration duties, members of the ship’s company of HMAS Kanimbla helped in the restoration of the WW II coastal defence emplacement on ...
Book Review: No Picnic
Title: No Picnic – An Account of the 1982 Falklands War by Author: Royal Marine Maj Gen Julian Thompson Publisher: Cassell. ISBN: 0-304-35647-6 This book, a revised edition of a ...
Book Review: War in a String Bag
Title: War in a String Bag – Autobiography of WW2 Fleet Air Arm Pilot Charles Lamb Author: Charles Lamb Publisher: Cassell ISBN:0 -304-35841-X This is an autobiographical account of Charles Lamb’s exploits in ...
Obituary: Commodore John B Snow RAN (1929-2002)
(Eulogy given by VADM D. W. Leach AC, CBE, LVO, RAN (Rtd) at the Memorial Service in the Chapel of St George the Martyr in HMAS WATSON on 4 May ...
The Australian White Ensign
From its inception in 1911 the Royal Australian Navy flew as its distinguishing flag the White Ensign featuring the red cross of St. George handed down to it by the ...
Recollections of the SS Jervis Bay – a Path to the Sea
Queen Bee – Radio-Controlled Target Aircraft of the 1930s
Navies ignore threat of aircraft The emergence of airpower as a formidable weapon at the end of WW I was to a large extent ignored by Allied Navies as a ...
