When the signal “Cease hostilities against Japan” was hoisted in the British Task Force, awaiting a broadcast to the Fleet by Admiral Halsey USN, a kamikaze splashed into the sea ...
Publications
Carley Life Rafts of WW2
The Carley life-float (Admiralty Seamanship Manual 1956 terminology) was the principal method of lifesaving equipment during WW2, fitted to all warships, and not superseded by the present form of inflatable ...
Submarines of the British Pacific Fleet
Although largely unseen except on setting out and returning to base at Fremantle WA, British submarines of the BPF mainly T and S classes, achieved a great deal through their ...
British Pacific Fleet 1944-46
Obituary: Lieutenant W E Allen RAN (Retd) 1899-2005
Offensive Minelaying – Pacific 1944 (Part 2)
Bust of Lord Nelson at MHQ garden Island
The inscription reads: This bust of Lord Nelson Presented to the Royal Australian Navy by the Naval Auxiliary Patrol Association NSW Was erected in its present (sic) position On the ...
Book Review: Flip Side War
Title: Flip Side War: Recollections of the author’s experiences in the RAN, World War II Author: Ean McDonald Publisher: Hesperian Press – Carlisle WA 6101 ISBN 0 85905 353 9 ...
Book Review: The Biography of Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN
Title: The Biography of Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN, Government Resident at Albany, Western Australia 1833 – 1839 (Napoleonic War naval hero and Australian pioneer) Author: Gwen Chessell, 2005, Publisher: ...
Book Review: The Fragile Forts
Title:The Fragile Forts: The Fixed Defences of Sydney Harbour 1788-1963 Author: Peter Oppenheim, Publisher: Australian Military History Publications, Loftus NSW. The Fragile Forts is a joint venture between the Australian ...
Last Link With HMAS YARRA Gone
On 23 July 2005, Mrs Molly McLean (the widow of LCDR R W Rankin, RAN) passed away in Charters Towers, QLD. She was 92 years old. Molly was born Mary ...
Letters: HMAS Adelaide
Dear Sir, Congratulations on Graeme Andrews’ excellent and timely article on the “forgotten” cruiser, HMAS Adelaide. The front cover shows one of the 6″ Mark XII guns, not gun mounting ...
Letters: Canal Zone clasp 1951/2
You may not be aware that some time ago the British Government approved the award of the above medal to naval personnel who served in the Suez Canal Zone in ...
Japanese Proclamation of Unconditional Surrender
Proclamation of Unconditional Surrender by HIROHITO, EMPEROR of JAPAN (1926-1989) IMPERIAL RESCRIPT TO OUR GOOD AND LOYAL SUBJECTS, After pondering deeply the general conditions of the world and the actual ...
SS William Dawes – A Ship is Burning (1942)
Aviator or Seaman or Both?
Ten facts about the Battle of Trafalgar
Ten facts about the Battle of Trafalgar: – The youngest sailor to fight at Trafalgar was just 8 years old. – The oldest was 68. – A woman called Jane ...
Rationale for the Battle of Trafalgar
Sea Power Ashore and in the Air
HMAS Pioneer – Blockading German East Africa, 1915-16
Nelson’s Coat and the Bullet that Killed Him
Horatio Nelson’s “Trafalgar Coat”, the uniform he was wearing when he was shot, has been reunited with the French musket ball that passed through it and killed him in 1805. ...
The Preservation of Horatio, Lord Nelson’s Body
Much has been written about Nelson in the lead up to this bicentenary of his death at the Battle of Trafalgar and here the author dispels the myth of “Nelson’s ...
HMS Nabob – Survival after U-Boat Attack in the Arctic 1944
Offensive Minelaying – Pacific 1944 (Part 1)
Germany’s Surrender 60 years ago – Admiralty Signal
A lifetime onwards, Navy men and women reflected inevitably during the month of May 2005 as to where they actually were when the German surrender brought about cessation of WWII ...