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 ...
Ship design and development
The Royal Yacht Britannia
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
Success & Failure – The Story of the Torpedo Gunboat
Further information on Bathurst class minesweepers
Recently an article concerning the Bathurst class mine-sweepers was featured in this Review. For completeness a few minor points that were not covered are now mentioned. With regard to the ...
Bathurst Class Minesweepers (Corvettes)
HERMAN GILL IN HIS HISTORY of the Royal Australian Navy 1939-1942 stated that the Bathurst class minesweepers or corvettes were ‘an Australian modification of an Admiralty design’ and this view ...
Coastal Motor Boats – 1916
In the early summer of 1915 three young Naval Officers from the Harwich Destroyer Force (Lieutenants Hampden, Bremner and Anson) conceived the idea of a small fast motor boat, capable ...
Destroyer Design – HMS Kelly
Japanese Gunnery and Torpedo Exercises in Jervis Bay – 1917
IT IS NOW WELL KNOWN that the Australian Government was critical of the Japanese naval contribution during the First World War. In fact, Japanese naval support to Australia over the ...
Kelly of the Fighting Fifth Flotilla – A brief history of HMS Kelly
HMS Illustrious – the first armoured aircraft carrier
HMAS Warramunga, the Second of the Australian Built Tribals 1942 – 1963
Ship Design at the Turn of the Century
The turn of the century produced an unusual range of warships as these photographs show: ...