The current “Review” asks for any information relating to the original HMAS ADELAIDE which may be useful in compiling a book of facts to be presented to the present day ...
Naval history
Letter – Bustler and Kangaroo
Recently while cruising the Parramatta River, a detour into Homebush Bay proved quite interesting. I had intended to photograph the tug “Bustler” which lies derelict there. Alongside Bustler is what ...
The Ketty Brovig and Coburg Sinking 1941
HMAS Moresby, Survey Ship
HMS SILVIO was one of four World War I Royal Navy Minesweepers converted to Survey Ships in 1922-25. Sister ships were Iroquois, Ormonde and Herald. In 1925 Silvio was lent ...
Man O’War Steps Restored – 1973
After over a century of use by members of both the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy, the Man O’War Steps at Farm Cove were restored and extended early ...
The Queen’s Hard Bargain
IN THE ROYAL NAVY at the turn of the century playing cards were not permitted in naval ships and establishments. However, when Winston Churchill became First Sea Lord the rule ...
Queer Jobs
The Old Fou Fou Band
No self respecting warship in the World War I era was without its Fou Fou Band. Originality was the keynote of a successful Fou Fou Band and from this photograph of ...
Holland 1 – Royal Navy’s First Submarine Salvaged
The following report on the salvage and restoration of Britain s first submarine, Holland 1, appeared in the January issue of the Royal Navy’s ‘Navy News’. HOLLAND 1, the Royal ...
Gunboats on the Yangtse: 1920 to 1937
HMAS Barcoo
HMAS BARCOO was one of the eight Australian built River Class anti-submarine frigates laid down during the Second World War. All except Barwon and Macquarie saw active service in the ...
Minesweeping in the old Protector
Anon This verbatim account of life in the old gunboat HMAS Protector was found in the editorial files of the late Harry Adlam, but unfortunately it lacked the author’s name. ...
HMAS Manoora-Pushing towards the Philippines
The Invincible Invincible
THE SHIP THAT CHANGED NAVAL THINKING visited Sydney in December and despite a refusal on Government level to use the Captain Cook Graving Dock won vast public support. Here is ...
Crimea Battle was Forerunner of Combined Operations
The Loss of HMAS Armidale
HMS Victorious 1785 – 1970
USS Keppler (DD765) – Some Facts and Figures
LAID DOWN: 23.4.44. LAUNCHED: 24.6.45. IN SERVCE: 23.5.47. Photograph shows U.S.S. KEPPLER in U.S. Navy Service. KEPPLER at this time was a converted gearing DD-710 class FRAM II destroyer and ...
Letters – Cradle of the RAN
Williamstown may have been the cradle of the Victorian Naval Forces and the Commonwealth Naval Forces, but there seems little doubt that from the inception of Australia’s own Naval Forces ...
HMAS Australia – Visit to Gallipoli – 1936
During the Abyssinian crisis in 1936, H.M.A.S. Australia and Sydney were serving with the Mediterranean Fleet, the former having been on exchange with H.M.S. Sussex and the latter was temporarily serving ...
Obituary: Harry Adlam
HAROLD CHARLES (HARRY) ADLAM grew up in Penshurst, Sydney. Economics dictated that he leave school at the age of 14. However, he educated himself and ended up with a better ...
Punishment in the services – The Good Old Days
The Loss of HMS Dorsetshire
The Royal Yacht Britannia
HMAS Una – a Work Horse – 1914
ONE OF THE SPOILS from the capture of the German New Guinea colonies in 1914 was the steam yacht Komet. Built in 1911 as the Government yacht for the colonies, ...