The article in the last issue of N.H.R. Vol. 17, No. 4, (Harmony at Sea) (December 1996) about the employment of women sailors at sea (R.A.N.) was not only revealing ...
Naval Historical Review
From the President
I regret to say that many people writing on naval and other maritime subjects are, in my opinion, very sloppy with their terminology. Self-styled “Naval Correspondents” are not above referring ...
LUIGI DURAND DE LA PENNE – Italian human torpedo
Few people who saw the Italian Guided Missile Destroyer LUIGI DURAND DE LA PENNE during her visit to Sydney will know of this story of the person for whom she was ...
Belconnen Naval Wireless Station and HMAS Harman 1939-1996
Stoker Hanlon – Dead men tell no tales
Battle of Cape St Vincent bicentenary – an Australian perspective
“Nobly, Nobly, Cape St. Vincent to the North West died away” The Canberra Times I note did not let the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Cape St Vincent on ...
1901-1910 Parliament Debates on Financing Australia’s Navy
Obituary: Commodore E E Johnston AO AM OBE
Letters: our First Rear Admiral – a vote for King
FOR KING AND COUNTRY (but especially for King). It was sad to see that old chestnut trotted out again on page 17 of the September 1996 issue of the Naval ...
Letters: our First Rear Admiral – Dumaresq or King?
The September 1996 issue carries an interesting story about Rear Admiral J. S. Dumaresq, CB, CVO on page 17. The article says “He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1921, ...
Captain Cook’s Plotting Board
There is a coffee table in Maritime Headquarters, Australia that has a link with Captain Cook. The table has a dark wooden board set into it with the board protected ...
Letters – Chapel Windows – what about Quickmatch?
The September 1996 issue of the `Navy Review’ proudly displays the glass windows depicting the `V’ & `W’, `N’, and Tribal Class destroyers, and rightly so. But, as a past crewman ...
The Tragedy of ‘Q’ Ship HMS Stonecrop – 1917
The Legend of Arnold Green RAN – Follow-Up Stories
Further to the article on Arnold Green in the December 1996 edition, more Arnold Green stories: 1. On assumption of his duties as Resident Naval Officer, Hobart, Arnold Green ...
Atlantic Rescue of Coastal Command Sunderland -1940
Obituary: Commander Leslie Brooks RAN (1900-1996)
Leslie Brooks was one of the best-known figures of Sydney’s Anzac Day marches with his snowy beard and ramrod straight presence. Brooks joined the Navy at 14, served in two ...
Obituary: Ian Hunter McDonald RAN (1915-1996)
On 25 November 1996, 55 years to the day of the sinking of HMS Barham, in which he was serving and when 862 of his shipmates lost their lives, Captain ...
Female Submariners
Huon Class Minehunters – Launching of HMAS Norman
The Naming of USS Canberra (Follow-up Article)
Naval Medicine in Australia – Some Origins in Northern Waters
A Naval Airman’s Christmas Carol
Or “Who me, Joss?” (Courtesy – HMAS Albatross) Jossman Wencelas looked out On the Feast of Stephen, When the R.P.O.s stood round about, Blancoed, crisp and even. Loudly swore the ...
Holbrook – Submarine Town, Australia
In December 1914, Lieutenant Douglas Norman Holbrook, RN, captain of a small old submarine, B11, penetrated the narrows in the Dardanelles and sank the Turkish cruiser, MESUDIYEH. This earned him ...
Binoculars from the Past
One of Australia’s major naval tragedies of World War II has had its echo in Canberra more than 50 years later. Commodore (retired) M. Rayment of the Royal Australian Navy, ...
Harmony at Sea
A copy of an unidentified magazine article came to our notice some weeks ago. It was headed “The Royal Navy”, and dealt with many facets of that Service in a ...