This is an edited account of the loss of the auxiliary patrol vessel HMS Kuala as related by her commanding officer Lieutenant Franklin Caithness, RNR, to the late Commander H.V. ...
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The History of HMAS Tingira
Japanese Gunnery and Torpedo Exercises in Jervis Bay – 1917
IT IS NOW WELL KNOWN that the Australian Government was critical of the Japanese naval contribution during the First World War. In fact, Japanese naval support to Australia over the ...
HMS Nestor at Jutland
HMS Amethyst – the Yangtse Incident 1948
The RAN – 1918-1919
The Navy and the Napier Earthquake – New Zealand, 1931
The Destruction of Force K – Mediterranean 1941
HMS Renown – Battle-cruiser 1916 – 1948
Escape From Gumusluck (Turkey, 1943)
The Cruise of the Speedy – c1840
A Submarine Episode during the Indian-Pakistan War of 1971
Admiral Sir Victor Smith, AC, KBE, CB, DSC
British Monitors East of Malta
The Chindwin Flotilla 1945
THE DISASTROUS RETREAT of the British forces in Burma, their incredible heroism during the siege of Imphal and the eventual southward advance through the worst fighting terrain in the world ...
Genesis of the Australia
THAT THE FIRST AUSTRALIA of the RAN was a Dreadnought battle cruiser was largely due to a combination of accidents, rather than any coherent policy on the part of Great ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp – Antarctic Research 1947-1948
SPACE WILL NOT ALLOW ME to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1947-1948
Space will not allow me to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp mission, ...