At 0800 on 25 April 1912 the White Ensign was raised for the first time onboard HMAS TINGIRA as she lay at anchor in Rose Bay. TINGIRA thus became the ...
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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 ...
Unique Shield for Hobart Museum
Navy history keeps bobbing up in the most unexpected places. Browsing through an antique shop ‘up north’ a Navy enthusiast spotted the wartime shield of the RAN 817 Squadron Fleet ...
Book Review: Action Stations Coral Sea
Chris Coulthard-Clark, Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd 157 pages, illustrated. This thoroughly researched account of the first important, sea battle in the South Pacific in World War 2 is ...
Book Review: The Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney
Lew Lind, Bellrope Press, 74 pages with illustrations and maps. The Japanese midget submarine attack on ships in Sydney Harbour occurred almost fifty years ago and yet is still a ...