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Occasional Paper 103: Brisbane rejoices as the US Navy comes to town (March 1941)

Editorial Staff · Mar 4, 2021 ·

  On 25 March 1941, a US Naval squadron visited Brisbane on a three-day goodwill visit. The United States had not yet entered the Second World War – Rear-Admiral Newton ...

Occasional Paper 104: Changi and the HMAS Perth Survivors

Editorial Staff · Mar 4, 2021 ·

By Max Thomson HMAS PERTH survivors were the subject of a special request tabled to authorities when Changi prisoners of war were released in Singapore following Japan’s surrender in 1945. ...

Occassional Paper 102: Cliff House and South Head: Early History

Webmaster · Mar 3, 2021 ·

A pictorial history of the Defence site established on Sydney’s South Head in 1877. Now known as HMAS Watson the site is located above Camp Cove. The notes were prepared after a research request for more information on the history of Cliff House. Cliff House, located in the heritage precinct of HMAS Watson is today the residence of the Commander Australian Fleet. ...

Occasional Paper 101: RAN Torpedo Factory, Neutral Bay

Editorial Staff · Feb 4, 2021 ·

By Midshipman Lloyd Skinner, RAN In 1942, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Torpedo Factory, located at Neutral Bay, Sydney commenced operations. Previously, the Torpedo Depot at Garden Island across the ...

Occasional Paper 100: Operation Estes

Editorial Staff · Feb 2, 2021 ·

By Midshipman Lloyd Skinner, RAN Beginning in 1980, Operation Estes saw the government call upon the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to conduct regular surface patrols around Bass Strait. Aerial and ...

Occasional Paper 99: HMAS Tarakan fire 71 years ago

David Stratton · Feb 2, 2021 ·

With Australian’s focussed on celebrating Australia day and long weekends the anniversary of the tragic explosion and fire in HMAS Tarakan (I) on 25 January 1950 passes relatively unnoticed most ...

Book Review: Schoolies: Selected Service Stories of the Royal Navy Instructor Officers’ Association

Book reviewer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Schoolies: Selected Service Stories of the Royal Navy Instructor Officers’ Association. By John Nixon and Michael S. Rose. Hardcover with illustrations, 228 pages. £20, available through Pinewood Hill Publishing. Bravo ...

Book Review: Atomic Salvation

Book reviewer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Atomic Salvation by Tom Lewis. Big Sky Publishing, Sydney, 2020. Soft cover, 352 pages with b&w photographs. Booksellers at $29.99. In this book the author constructs an argument supporting the ...

Book Review: Believe it or Not – The Bill Ripley Story

Book reviewer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Believe it or Not: The Bill Ripley Story. By Stuart Ripley. In two volumes of 800 pages, these hard cover books are produced to a high standard. Available from ripleysturat@gamil.com, ...

Letter: Formation of the Royal Australian Navy

Letter Writer · Dec 20, 2020 ·

Re: Naval Historical Review Vol. 41 No 73 Sept. 2020, An Essay on the Forming of the Royal Australian Navy by Midshipman Lloyd Skinner Dear Editor I read Lloyd’s essay ...

Trouble with the Neighbours

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Garden Island has always had trouble with the neighbours. The earliest recorded was in 1788 and the latest in January 2020. Over the intervening 232 years neighbours ...

The Percy Islands and some Visitors

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

Continuing the series on islands around our coastline we venture a little further south down the Queensland coast, dropping the pick at that wondrous yachtie escape, Middle Percy Island. The ...

Singapore Dockyard: The ‘Truncated Scheme’ and construction  of the ‘missing’ wharf walls 1938–1941

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Bernard Mennell  This article was published in the May 2019 (Vol 24/No 1) issue of Dockyards, the newsletter of the Naval Dockyards Society (UK) and is re-published with kind ...

Captain Valentina Orlikova – Soviet Maritime Hero

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Alexandra Murtazaeva Readers may remember Alexandra who while completing her studies in Australia helped out as a volunteer at the Boatshed. Now back at home in Moscow, she tells ...

Commander Guy Alexander Beange DSC RAN

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Hector Donohue  Commander Guy Alexander Beange DSC RAN served with the Royal New Zealand Navy Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War and trained as a Fleet Air Arm ...

The Solomon Islands Part 2: from WWII to Present

Editorial Staff · Dec 19, 2020 ·

This article forms part of a trilogy covering the history of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island. Part 1, discussing the Solomon Islands from European discovery to the Second World War, ...

Exmouth Gulf – Submariners’ Haven

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Colin Randall Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia In 1618, the Dutch East India Company ship Mauritius, under command of Willem Janszoon, landed near North West Cape and named Willem’s River, ...

The HMAS Parramatta Memorials

Editorial Staff · Dec 19, 2020 ·

In this our 50th year it is well to reflect on some of the more important projects undertaken by the Society and none is perhaps more worthy than conceiving a ...

A Tribute to Ordinary Seaman Edward Sheean VC RANR

Editorial Staff · Dec 19, 2020 ·

After many years of failure to gain recognition for the heroic deeds performed by Ordinary Seaman Edward Sheean, the posthumous award of his Victoria Cross came as a sudden but ...

Occasional Paper 98: Life Line- the Rescue of Tony Bullimore

A.N. Other · Dec 7, 2020 ·

The rescue of yachtsmen in the Southern Ocean has been headline news on several occasions in recent decades. Of particular interest was the rescue of Tony Bullimore in January 1997. ...

Occasional Paper 97: The Lost Patrol

A.N. Other · Dec 4, 2020 ·

By Eric Deshon  The following story was first published in the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) Volunteers’ Quarterly newsletter ‘All Hands’, Issue 103 in June 2018. It is based on ...

Occasional Paper 96: RAN Encounters with Papua New Guinea’s Big Rivers

Editorial Staff · Nov 18, 2020 ·

By David Michael The passing of Commodore Sam Bateman RAN, (Rtd) in October 2020 reminded many people of his Command of the PNG based patrol boat, HMAS Aitape and its ...

Occasional Paper 95: Grandfather was a cableman

Editorial Staff · Nov 18, 2020 ·

By Fairlie Clifton Fairlie Clifton is a long-term member of the Naval Historical Society and foundation member of the Australian National Maritime Museum where she volunteers as a guide. Her ...

Occasional Paper 94: Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie (Mac) Jesse Gregory RAN (Ret): 9 February 1922-27 August 2014

Editorial Staff · Nov 18, 2020 ·

By Rex Williams, President Victorian Chapter of the NHSA  As President since 2003 and active member during the period Mackenzie (Mac) Gregory was at the helm, Rex grew to love ...

Occasional Paper 93: Boxing in the Navy

Editorial Staff · Oct 6, 2020 ·

By John Smith  John Smith, our senior researcher, joined the RAN College in 1946 and retired as a Commander having specialised in gunnery. He served in many RAN ships and ...

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