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Occasional Paper 192: Exploring a Diorama: The RAN Bridging Train at Suvla Bay during the Gallipoli Campaign

A.N. Other · May 7, 2025 ·

By Geoff Barnes The following story by Geoff Barnes who created a diorama of the RAN Bridging Team at Suvla Bay in 1915 was first published as a blog by ...

Occasional Paper 191: Aviation in the Royal Australian Navy, the first 65 Years, 1917 to 1982

Editorial Staff · Mar 1, 2025 ·

Sopwith Pup from HMAS Sydney with HMAS Melbourne in the background

The following story is based on a Royal Australian Navy News story first published on Friday 23 April 1982, page 4. Australian Naval aviation this month celebrated the 65th anniversary ...

Occasional Paper 190: Captain Cook Graving Dock 80th Anniversary: Engineering and Art

Editorial Staff · Mar 1, 2025 ·

By Lorraine Fildes and Colin Randall This paper was compiled to mark the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island in Sydney Harbour ...

Cadet Midshipmen at Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria, 1939

David Stratton · Feb 21, 2025 ·

The photo shows a group portrait of Cadet Midshipmen at Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria, 1939. The Cadets who were the third year class in 1939 and who originally joined the ...

The RAN and Cyclone Tracy 1974

David Stratton · Dec 26, 2024 ·

During the early hours of Christmas Day 1974, devastated the city of Darwin with winds in excess of 160 knots, killing 49 people ashore and a further 16 at sea. ...

Naval Art: Well Worth the Visit

David Michael · Dec 12, 2024 ·

This story was first published in the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) Volunteers’ quarterly magazine,  ‘All Hands’, Issue 129 in December 2024. The author, Geoff Barnes is a volunteer with ...

History of Australian Defence Landing Craft and the Balikpapan Class Landing Craft Heavy (LCH) 1971 – 2014

David Michael · Dec 12, 2024 ·

This Historical Booklet (Monograph 200) by Bjarne Kristensen was published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia in December 2024. This paper discusses the history of Australian Defence Amphibious vessels ...

Australian Submarines in the Cold War — A force Multiplier in the West

Dr Tom Lewis OAM · Dec 3, 2024 ·

This Historical Booklet (Monograph 199) by Dr Tom Lewis was published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia in September 2024. This paper discusses the role of the Royal Australian ...

Occasional Paper 188: Highlights of RAN History: Two Busy Decades 1950 to 1970

A.N. Other · Nov 12, 2024 ·

RAN Guided Missile Destroyers (DDG) HMA Ships Hobart, Peth and Brisbane. RAN image

The following is adapted from the Royal Australian Navy News, 17 April 1970 edition, page 4. 1950 to 1960 From1950 onwards the post-war tempo Naval growth quickened. The outbreak of ...

Bathurst Class Corvettes

David Stratton · Nov 10, 2024 ·

When war looked imminent after the Munich crisis in 1938, the Royal Australian Navy realised it needed a fleet of escort ships to guard convoys and keep the sea lanes ...

Obituary – Graeme Andrews OAM 1938–2024

David Stratton · Oct 9, 2024 ·

GRAEME ANDREWS: 1938–2024 Graeme Andrews developed a passion for the sea early in life and became one of the country’s foremost authorities on maritime heritage. Through his writing, research, and ...

Occasional Paper 186: Cyclone Tracy and the sinking of HMAS Arrow – 50 years on

Dr Tom Lewis OAM · Sep 6, 2024 ·

Aerial view of Darwin after Cyclone Tracy in 1974 - RAN

It’s 50 years this Christmas since Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin, killing 66 people and destroying 90% of the city’s houses. In this extract from his new book Cyclone Warriors – ...

Book Review: Salt Horse

Kingsley Perry · Jun 2, 2024 ·

Salt Horse – Memoir of a Maverick Admiral, Claude Lionel Cumberlege. Published by Whittles Publishing Ltd, Dunbeath, Caithness KW6 6EG, Scotland. Admiral Claude Cumberlege RN wrote his memoirs in 1936-38, ...

The Naval Graves Project

Kingsley Perry · Jun 2, 2024 ·

By Kingsley Perry  In the December 2023 edition of this journal there was an article titled Rookwood. It described the location and extent of this large cemetery in Sydney and ...

Occasional Paper 185: Fiji Coup 1987 – RAN on the ground

A.N. Other · May 1, 2024 ·

By Commander David Jordan CSC RANR On 14 May 1987 the Military of Fiji took control of the country in a bloodless coup d’état. In response to the coup, the ...

Occasional Paper 184: History of HMA Naval Dockyard, Williamstown.

David Michael · Apr 4, 2024 ·

With the discovery of gold in Victoria in the decade 1851-1861, the population increased sevenfold. The large fleet of vessels that brought these people into the Port of Melbourne overwhelmed ...

Occasional Paper 183: The RAN Bridging Train – Dry Land Sailors

David Michael · Apr 4, 2024 ·

The Bridging Train which existed as a small but highly effective unit of the RAN operated essentially on dry land as field engineers between 1915 and 1917. They served with ...

Book Review: Abide With Me – The HMAS Voyager Tragedy

Kingsley Perry · Mar 23, 2024 ·

Abide With Me – The HMAS Voyager Tragedy by Elizabeth McCarthy This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the collision between HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager off the New South ...

Book Review: Gordon’s Nuggets: The Principles of War and How They Help in Love, Life & Work.

Book reviewer · Mar 6, 2024 ·

Gordon’s Nuggets: The Principles of War and How They Help in Love, Life & Work by Gordon Ramsay.The book is now available through the Society’s website shop and all good booksellers. ...

HMS Hood and the Special Service Squadron in Australia 20 February 1924 to 20 April 1924

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Graeme Lunn John Brown and Company laid down the keel for a battlecruiser in September 1916 that would become the Royal Navy’s epitome of firepower, speed and grace during ...

A Naval Family: The Hixsons

Haken, J.K., Dr · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Dr J.K. Haken While the Hixson family is well recorded in colonial naval history, that of one member, Edward Manwell Hixson who went to Queensland, has only recently come ...

The Secret of the Battle of Sunda Strait: Secret Japanese Ship Sunk by Friendly Fire

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Rohan Goyne The Battle of Sunda Strait is remembered for the loss of the allied cruisers USS Houston and HMAS Perth in a confused night action in the Sunda ...

A Non-Combatant at War: Palestine, Greece and Crete 1941 – Pt 1

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

Dr. Richmond Jeremy, OBE MB ChM FRCP FRACP 1899 – 1995 Notes made by Dr. Jeremy were transcribed and published in 1998 by his son Richmond Jeremy. With permission of ...

Captain Jack Bolton Newman RAN – The Grandfather of Information Warfare Officers and RAN Communications

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By SBLT Cináed Finall RAN We are pleased to publish this essay, which was written in 2023 in support of the inaugural Information Warfare Officer Course dux award. Cináed joined ...

The Last National Serviceman – Part 3

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

Part II of this series appeared in the December 2023 edition of this magazine. By Robert Stephenson In 1952, after the acquisition of HMAS Sydney III, the Royal Navy lent ...

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