ON 26 NOVEMBER 1812 HMS Samarang, sloop-of-war commanded by Captain William Case, arrived at Port Jackson from Madras with a quantity of specie in dollars for the use of the ...
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Kelly of the Fighting Fifth Flotilla – A brief history of HMS Kelly
Fateful Encounter – Sydney and Kormoran
HMS Illustrious – the first armoured aircraft carrier
HMAS Psyche – 1915
Captain Steve Arliss RN and HMAS Napier
This thumbnail sketch of Captain Steve Arliss, Captain (D), 7th Destroyer Flotilla was prepared by the late Rear-Admiral Becher as a helpful guidance for the Society’s history of the N ...
Captain James Bradshaw RN Extracts from his Journals 1801-1811
James Goodenough, Sailor and Humanitarian 1830 – 1875
HMAS Shropshire: 1928 – 1954
The Loss of HMS Kelly
HMAS Warramunga, the Second of the Australian Built Tribals 1942 – 1963
A Royal Salute with Live Ammunition – Korea, 1952
(This article was the winner in the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Essay Competition.) IN COPIES OF QUEEN’S REGULATIONS and Admiralty Instructions under the section Ceremonial is a Table of Gun ...
Two Years in HMS Renown 1943-45
I JOINED RENOWN IN MAY 1943, at Rosyth, as a brand-new Lieutenant (E), straight from Keyham; it was my first time in Scotland, and I well remember the difficulty that ...
The Second Battle of Sirte – Mediterranean, 1941
First of the Line – HMAS Albatross, first aircraft carrier
WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER1 emerged from the 1914-18 war as a major weapon of war, it was inevitable that the Royal Australian Navy – with the largest island continent in ...
The Submarine AE2 in World War One
The Rescue Yacht
HMAS PERTH AND USS HOUSTON were sunk in the very early hours of 1st March 1942, after a terrific fight against overwhelming odds. Many of the Perth survivors were picked ...
The Fate of Singapore’s Guns – Japanese Report
In a previous issue of Naval Historical Review we published an article on the guns of Singapore and their ultimate fate. Mr. Bogart, a United States member of the Society, ...
The Passing of the Encounter 1902- 1932
An Australian with Jellicoe (1919)
Stuart sinks Gondar (1941)
The Life and Naval Career of Vice Admiral Sir Hugh David Stevenson, AC, KBE.
South of Gallipoli
In our September, 1976 issue we featured an article entitled ‘North of Gallipoli’ in which the author, Commander George Nekrasov, wrote of the relatively unknown operations of the Russian Black ...
HMS Exeter at the Battle of River Plate
The Navy – Old and New
THE NAVY IN THE EARLY YEARS of the century prided itself in being capable of doing anything anybody else could do and do it better. It was the last years ...