[Ed: Dec 1995 edition from the Victorian Chapter: Osborne House and its maritime museum at Geelong was under threat to be sold by the local council. The site of the first Royal ...
Naval history
Book Review: For Those in Peril
Title: For Those in Peril Author: Vic Cassells An evocative title. On the title page, the author says “A comprehensive listing of the ships and men of the Royal Australian ...
Book Review: Contact!
Title: “CONTACT! HMAS RUSHCUTTER and Australia’s Submarine Hunters 1939 -1946.” The disproportionate contribution of Australia to Allied victory in World War II, bearing in mind her limited resources, is common knowledge. ...
Background to Names and Words to Describe Ships and Boats
Letters: Commander Wojciech Francki
Thank you very much indeed for your letter and a copy of the “Naval Historical Review”. I found the interview with Commander Wojciech Francki (the spelling of his name is ...
Letters: Tribal Elders Approve Retention of “Warramunga”
Australians in the Royal Naval Air Service 1914-1918 (Part 2a)
Submarine Sinks Battleship – Holbrook VC
Obituary: Rear Admiral Bryn Mussared (1917-1995)
Rear Admiral Bryn Mussared was born in 1917 in Semaphore SA, and entered the Navy in 1932. On passing out from the Naval College, he was awarded ‘maximum time’ and the ...
Obituary: Commander Arthur Stanley Storey (1909 – 1995)
Krait-Operation Jaywick: Diary of Leading Telegraphist Young
From the Diary Of Leading Telegraphist H. S. Young RANR; written while serving aboard M. V Krait during Operation Jaywick – 1943. © H.S. Young 1/9/43 Tail-shaft broke went alongside ...
Report:HMAS Sydney II-Possible and probable causes of loss
The Department of Marine Archaeology, Western Australia has produced a Report No. 104, by W.J. Olsen, investigating the possible and probable causes of the loss of H.M.A.S. “SYDNEY”. It is ...
Commander Wojceich Franki – Polish Navy (Rtd)
Australians in the Royal Naval Air Service 1914-1918 (Part 1)
The Athenian Trireme – Design and History
The Bullet that Killed Nelson
With its spectacular front cover reproduction of the portrait of Vice-Admiral Viscount Lord Nelson K.B., the September issue of NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW was fascinating with its feature story about “The RAN ...
The True Story of Nelson’s Famous Signal
Longitude and Chronometers of the 18th Century
Clandestine Radios – Burma Railway 1942-1945
Spectrum of Command -RANVR, RANR(S) and RAN
*The first became Australia’s Minister for Defence. * The second piloted 8463 ships of the world through our major ports to set a record that probably never will be eclipsed. ...
Nelson’s Signals on the Eve of Trafalgar
In this “Australia Remembers” year, it is fitting to reflect on the 190th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and what “might have been” if Lord Nelson had been defeated ...
Australia Remembers 1945-1995
RAN Clearance Diving Operations in the Gulf War – 1991
Who “Invented” Radar?
Trincamalee Harbour Incident – 1944
The British Fleet that lay at anchor in the harbour at Trincamalee consisted of five battleships, two squadrons of cruisers, four aircraft carriers and two flotillas of destroyers, all peacefully ...