On 19 February, 1942 a massed air raid on Darwin, Australia’s northern gateway was made by Japanese aircraft, the first major attack on Australian soil. This first attack was made ...
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A Brief History of HMVS Cerberus
In 1866, the Government of Victoria requested a ship from the British Admiralty to bolster the Colony’s defences. At this time, in England, a new type of ship designed for ...
Book Review: Mutiny on the Bounty
The Story of Captain William Bligh, seaman, navigator, surveyor and of the BOUNTY mutineers State Library of New South Wales 1991, Five authors, plates in col & b&w, Ind, 104 ...
Antarctic Lubricants
SCOTCH & ICEBERG Lieutenant John Pain RANR (Ret), an Ansett Airlines career man and personal helicopter pilot to the late Sir Reginald Ansett, gave an enthralling address recently to the ...
HMAS Tingira – Legacy Of Service (1912-1927)
HMAS Sydney – Rottnest Island Guardship
It is a little known fact that HMAS SYDNEY II, one of the Royal Australian Navy’s major warships in World War Two “hid” off Rottnest Island at the approaches to ...
Development of the Australian Submarine Force
Battle Honours of HMA Ships (as at Sept 1991)
Letters: HMAS Sydney and Kormoran
HMAS Sydney – A Tale of Two Warships
Obituary: Rear-Admiral H.A.S SHOWERS, CBE
Royal New Zealand Navy’s Fairmile Patrol Craft (Part 2)
Conditions on this leg were easier but there was still a long swell to contend with. At Noumea we were officially handed over to the Commander South West Pacific for ...
Book Review: The Third Brother
Chris Coulthard-Clark, 533 pages, illustrated, Allen and Unwin, Australia. In the spate of 50th Anniversary war books it comes as rather a surprise to have a book celebrating the 70th ...
RAN – First Naval Casualty – Loss Of AE1
Naval Operations against Turkey leading to ANZAC
USS Mount Hood – Explosion At Manus Island 1944
HMS Barham – Survivors Account Of Sinking
Royal New Zealand Navy’s Fairmile Patrol Craft (Part 1)
Obituary: Commodore ARL Lindsey, AM VRD RD RANR (RET)
Obituary: Captain H M Newcomb
Letters: A South Atlantic Incident
I wish to make the following correction to my article ”A SOUTH ATLANTIC INCIDENT” published in the September, 1990 edition of the Naval Historical Review. An ex Communicator might be forgiven ...
Profile of Vice Admiral I.D.G. MacDougall, A.O.
Vice Admiral MacDougall accepted our invitation to be patron of the Society when he succeeded Admiral Hudson as Chief of Naval Staff on 8th March, 1991. His curriculum vitae follows: ...
The RAN’s Destroyers
Scharnhorst – Life on the Other Side of the Mirror
Letters: Attack on HMAS Australia
Having read the various accounts of the dawn attack on HMAS Australia on 21st October 1944, as contained in the Society’s publications, may I submit the following observation on the ...