In the early summer of 1915 three young Naval Officers from the Harwich Destroyer Force (Lieutenants Hampden, Bremner and Anson) conceived the idea of a small fast motor boat, capable ...
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On the Gunline – HMAS Perth’s 3rd deployment in Vietnam
Slow Boat to China – USS Wachusett, 1865
The Tobruk Run
WHILE I WAS IN COMMAND of HMAS Vendetta in 1940-41, she ran a record number of trips to Tobruk. If my memory serves me right we went into that port ...
The Battle of The Glorious First of June, 1794
Destroyer Design – HMS Kelly
HMS Nelson, Armour Belted Cruiser 1882
IF A SINGULAR BRITISH WARSHIP could be called the harbinger of the formation of the Royal Australian Navy, that warship is HMS Nelson. The Colonial Defences Act of 1865 provided ...
HMS/HMVS Nelson – 120 gun Line-of-Battleship 1814
THIS THREE-DECKER BATTLESHIP was laid down in December 1809 and launched on 4th July 1814. Nelson was the first three-decker to be launched in England after the victory at Trafalgar ...
Sinking of Sydney by Kormoran – Report by pilot of Kormoran’s aircraft
The Loss of HMS Kuala, 1942
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 ...