Introduction By mid-afternoon of 15 March, 1889, it was apparent to all aboard the small fleet of British, American and German warships crammed into Apia harbour at Samoa that a ...
Publications
Letters – Quickmatch and Chapel Windows
I have received the March 1997 issue of the “Naval Historical Review”, which I am glad to note is up to the usual high standard. I would like to comment on ...
Commander Hugh W S Browning – HMAS Quiberon
The Remarkable Passage of the Wansfell through the Barrier Reef, 1863-1864
CDRE J G Goodenough (1830-1875) – Restoration of Grave
It all began with the monograph of an occasional paper delivered to the Naval Historical Society of Australia, Western Australia Chapter, by Lieutenant Commander G. L. W. Vickridge RFD RANR ...
Obituary: Alan Zammit RAN (1927-1997)
One of the Australian Navy’s foremost enthusiasts, Alan Zammit, was buried on Thursday at South Head Cemetery. A man capable of organising other lives, he had organised his own dying ...
The Origins of the General Service Medal
The Battle of Trafalgar – A Midshipman’s Memoirs, 1805
Tresco – History of the First Sydney Naval Residence of the RAN
Memorial Window – RAN destroyers
At the Chapel of Remembrance, Garden Island, Sydney on Sunday, 15th July 1997 a memorial window commemorating the fifteen RAN destroyers which served in World War II was dedicated and ...