It is just over 49 years since H.M.S. BARHAM was torpedoed by U.331 and lost off the Western Desert of Egypt – off Sollum and Sidi Barrani. She was the ...
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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 ...
The German Ultra
Operation Fuller-The Channel Dash by the German Fleet-1942
In The Beginning – The Naval Historical Society of Australia
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 1
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 5
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 3
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 4
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 2
Recollections of founding the Naval Historical Society
Letter – Gallipoli Commemorative Issue
Could I just place in writing my compliments to all associated with the June 1990 – Gallipoli Commemorative Issue – of NHR just received. It makes for damned good reading ...
Boom Defence Vessels
Pictorial – Reserve Fleet, Fremantle
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