Originally built before WW2 for RAF bombers, the airfield came under Admiralty control in 1939. Post war it was rebuilt for RN squadrons of the Far East Fleet until vacated ...
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Book Review: Dark Victory
Dark Victory By David Marr and Marian Wilkinson Allen and Unwin: Sydney, 2003 Pp 350. Price $29.95 pb Reviewed by Tigger Wise One man’s singleminded determination to preserve the integrity ...
Cockatoo Island – An Historical Account
Coastal Defence Forts at Albany, Western Australia
Obituary: Captain Stan Darling, OBE, DSC**, VRD, RANR
JUST PRIOR TO THE START of last year’s Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race a simple ceremony was conducted from the RAN diving launch Seal as the ashes of this distinguished ...
Obituary: Rear Admiral Sir Richard Troubridge,KCVO, Royal Navy
REAR ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD TROUBRIDGE, who died on 9 May 2003 aged 83, was truly one of the remarkable naval career success stories of the twentieth century. He was born ...
King of the Australian Coast
Australia’s First Warship – The Torpedo Boat Acheron
Which was Australia’s first ‘real’ warship is a question often asked by naval historians. Today, what colony you originally came from or where you now reside, could be important elements ...
Book Review: Lost but not forgotten – a bitter sweet victory
Lost but not forgotten – a bitter sweet victory HMAS Sydney II – in memory of the 645. by Keith Shegog Self-published Reviewed by Peter Colthorpe This book is no ...
Book Review: Into the Blue – Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before
Into the Blue – Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before by Tony Horwitz Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2002. 480pp., maps, index, bibliog.,pb., rrp $29.95 Reviewed by Bob Nicholls ...
Lloyds Patriotic Swords – further information
LLOYDS PATRIOTIC FUND SWORD AT LADY DENMAN MARITIME MUSEUM Further research in the Library of NHSA has discovered a little more of the story behind the presentation of this sword ...
The Raid on Limbang – 1962
HMAS Queenborough – Medivac in the Southern Ocean 1966
The Loss of HMS Oxley 1939
The Lorcha from Macau
THIS TYPE OF VESSEL was once common in the South China Sea during the colonial period of the 19th century, particularly around Macau. The type meant a vessel of hybrid ...
Shadows of Death
HMS Danae in Adelaide – Christmas 1936
Edward Albert Amphlett – Paymaster RN
American Plans for Invading New Zealand & Australia – Part2
Obituary: Vice Admiral Rodney Graham Taylor, AO RAN Retd
Admiral Taylor joined the RAN as a 13 year old junior entry cadet midshipman in 1954. He undertook his initial training at the Royal Australian Naval College at HMAS Cerberus, ...
Letters: Lloyds Patriotic Fund Sword
LLOYDS PATRIOTIC FUND SWORD AT LADY DENMAN MARITIME MUSEUM Dear Sir, Engraving on the sword reads: “From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Mr Wm. Pitt Bowler, Midshipman of HM Sloop Swift ...
