CROSSING THE BAY OF BISCAY Sydney ran into bad weather, losing the starboard lower boom, and the canopies of the starboard motor boats being stove in. In the Mediterranean we ...
Naval history
Occasional Paper 170: The Eight Inch Gun Relining Programme
June 1982 edition of the Naval Historical Review (all rights reserved) When the Second World War broke out the RAN possessed two 10,000 ton County class cruisers armed with BL ...
The QF 12 pounder 8 cwt Naval Field Gun
HMNZS Irirangi – NZ Naval Base
SS Pruth – The Moresby Wreck
I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 4)
Coal Ship — A Memory
Spitfire – The First Australian Built Warship
SINCE THE FORMATION of the Royal Australian Navy in 1911 hundreds of Australian built ships have served under the White Ensign, ships ranging in size and types from small Channel ...
The Fletcher Class Destroyers
I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 3)
NZS Amokura – New Zealand’s First Training Ship
Naval Hardware – Breech Loaders (Part2)
I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 2)
I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 1)
HMAS Shropshire
THIS IS THE STORY of a well known ship, seen through the eyes of a retired captain who commissioned the ship as a cadet in 1929. In 1927 the Admiralty ...
HMAS Parramatta Memorial
The memorial to the three ships bearing the proud title of HMAS Parramatta will be unveiled at 11.00 a.m. on Saturday, 13th June, 1981 at Queens Wharf Steps in the City ...
No. 2285 EOC – BL 6” Gun, HMAS Melbourne, history 1912 to present
The Australian as seen by an Englishman
Success & Failure – The Story of the Torpedo Gunboat
Garden Island Dockyard 1943-46
A View from the Accounts Branch IT WAS IN 1933 that I first became acquainted with the Royal Australian Navy and HMA Naval Establishments at Garden Island. At that time ...
Burra Bra — Ferry and Warship
A SLEEK PASSENGER FERRY for the Sydney to Manly service was launched at the shipyards of Morts Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd., Woolwich, New South Wales, on 17th June 1908. ...
The Cruise Of HMAS Australia -1934-36
Occasional Paper 147: The State Funeral Gun Carriage
Extracts from the Diary of Leading Signalman G.A. Wakely – HMS Swiftsure
17th April 1908: Ship ordered to sea daybreak 18th. 18th April 1908: Sailed from Malta at 0400 and made speed of 12 knots but were soon ordered to increase to ...
HMAS Bataan
The Last of the Australian Built Tribal Class THE LAST OF THE THREE Tribal class destroyers built at Cockatoo Island was to have been named Kurnai after an Aboriginal Tribe ...