Royal Australian Naval House has always been known affectionately as ‘Johnnies’, although the origin of the name is hard to trace. Enquiries made amongst men who used the hostel as ...
Publications
Stand-by to Snort, Standing Charge Starboard!
Confrontation-The Campaign Widens || RAN Participation 1964-66
HMAS Sydney – An End to the Controversy
The Sovereign’s Colours in the Royal Australian Navy 1925-2003
First Excitement in Sarawak 1963
Shore Patrol in Bermuda – HMS Blake 1971
RETURNING FROM A SUCCESSFUL DEPLOYMENT to the western sea-board of continental USA to support a major British Trade Exhibition in San Francisco, the helicopter cruiser HMS Blake paid a routine ...
Periscope Repair – Defects by Fin, Friend, and Feather
The Admiralty Writ-HMS Hermes in Quebec City 1976
Book Review: Long service and other nonoperational medals awarded to the Australian Defence Forces
Long service and other nonoperational medals awarded to the Australian Defence Forces By Ron Horton Available from Australian Information Shops. 32 pages. Reviewed by Gordon Mackinlay This small booklet records ...
Book Review: Full Circle – Log of the Navy’s No. 1 Conscript
Full Circle: Log of the Navy’s No. 1 Conscript By John Gritten Cualann Press, ISBN 0 9535036 9 0. 6 Corpach Drive, Dunfermline, Fife, KY12 7XG Scotland. Reviewed by Ian ...
Book Review: Zeebrugge
Zeebrugge By Barrie Pitt Cassell Military Paperbacks. Allen & Unwin, Sydney. Pp. 230. Price $19.95 Reviewed by B.L. Cleary This is the 2003 edition of a book, first published in ...
RNAS Sembawang – an Update
At the time of wriing, LCDR Swinden was RAN Liaison Officer Singapore. IN THE JUNE 2003 EDITION of the Review was an article on HMS Simbang (RNAS Sembawang). The closing ...
Devotion to Duty in Darwin – Laurance Ernest Tozer RAN
Torpedo Pioneers – 14 November Anniversary
Extract from The Times of London, 14 November 2002. Forwarded by David Simmonds (Member, WA) A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE has been noticed on the anniversaries of two of the pioneer developers ...
The Senior Service – Why is the Navy so often called?
A SURE WAY OF ENSURING RAGE from Army colleagues is for a Navy member to start up a discussion as to the order of protocol for a march, or a ...
HMS Marlborough’s Account of the Iraq War, March 2003
Johnnies – Royal Naval House, Sydney
Reverend A. Hilliard recalls the amenities of the place (located in Clarence Place, Sydney) towards the end of WW2. Extract from his memoirs of HMAS Junee 1944-5 ON OVERNIGHT ‘LIBERTIES’ ...
Cerberus – First of the modern battleships
PRIOR TO FEDERATION, VICTORIA’S DEFENCES were exposed as the British naval presence was located in far away Sydney. As a result a powerful 16 ship fleet evolved. This Victorian Navy ...
Advice to the Young
North Borneo Patrol Malaysia/Indonesia Confrontation
Early in the Confrontation campaign 1963-66 a large proportion of the Far East Fleet was employed in actively patrolling the coastline of Malaysia and North Borneo – which had its ...
The Royal Australian Navy Douglas C47 Dakotas
Mediterranean Memories
HMS Simbang (RNAS Sembawang) Singapore 1945-1976
Book Review: Dark Victory
Dark Victory By David Marr and Marian Wilkinson Allen and Unwin: Sydney, 2003 Pp 350. Price $29.95 pb Reviewed by Tigger Wise One man’s singleminded determination to preserve the integrity ...