The following information was extracted from the book `United and Undaunted’ by Ross Blue. The book is a complete history of the RAN Clearance Diving Branch and Ross was the ...
RAN operations
Book Review: The Shame of Savo Island
The Battle of Savo Island in which HMAS CANBERRA was lost has been the subject of many books, analyses and articles, but in his powerful and enthralling work the author ...
Search for the German Asiatic Squadron – 1914-1916
A Visit to Piraeus, Greece 1941
Book Review: Silencing debate on Shropshire
Mr Stan Nicholls wants to silence debate on what did and did not happen to HMAS Shropshire during World War II. So he has written a 330-page hard-cover book on ...
Dry Land Sailors – The Navy at Gallipoli
HMAS Sydney-SMS Emden Action at Cocos Islands 1914 – A German Survivor’s Account
Armstrong, J M – Naval Wartime Hero (Part 1)
Home, Home on the Range: Degaussing
The Battle for the Boom
SYDNEY HARBOUR has always presented a racy scene! Yachts thrash about in all manner of class events, Sydney’s ‘Great Ferry Race’ captures the imagination of all who pack vantage points ...
Leyte: HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Arunta in the Battle of Surigao Strait
HMAS Waterhen – a history
Lost Letter Throws New Light on Sydney-Emden Action
Sydney – Emden Action: a short history
IN OCTOBER 1914, Sydney and her sister ship Melbourne detached from the Flagship (Australia) and returned to Australia to form a unit of the escort of the first Anzac convoy ...
Flag Officers Commanding Australian Fleet, 1913-1986
Vice-Admiral Sir George E. Patey, KCMG, KCVO, MVO 1913-1916 Rear-Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham, KCB, MVO 1916-1917 Rear-Admiral Arthur Cavenagh Leveson, CB 1917-1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, KCMG, CB, CMG ...
ML 817’s New Guinea Operations
New Meaning put into the word Camouflage WARSHIP CAMOUFLAGE came in some weird and wonderful forms during WW II. But for one of the smaller ships of the RAN it ...
Flinders Naval Depot
Flinders Naval Depot – The Cradle of the RAN ONE RESULT OF THE FAMOUS HENDERSON REPORT of 1910 was the establishment of a naval depot at Crib Point, Victoria. Originally ...
Coal Ship — A Memory
Siting of guns at Flinders Naval Depot
In December 1941 CPO Don Walker was instructed to take a group of seamen, train them as a crew for a 3.7 inch howitzer and, when they were considered to ...
Escape From Gumusluck (Turkey, 1943)
HMAS Warramunga, the Second of the Australian Built Tribals 1942 – 1963
The Navy – Old and New
THE NAVY IN THE EARLY YEARS of the century prided itself in being capable of doing anything anybody else could do and do it better. It was the last years ...
RAN Guarded Nip Prisoners 1945-46
Clearance Divers Now 25
The Silver Anniversary of the Royal Australian Navy’s Clearance Diving Branch was celebrated this month and to mark the occasion we are publishing extracts from United and Undaunted by Lieutenant ...