The New Anzac Class Frigates, the first of which will be delivered during 1995, have been named to commemorate previous ships of the Royal Australian Navy, all of which had distinguished ...
Publications
Letter: Naming of Frigates
I write to record my disappointment, and no doubt reflect the feelings of many others, with the names chosen for the ‘Anzac’ frigates. Firstly, the continuing of the names ARUNTA ...
Faces of the Past (early 1942)
Top Row (l-r) Captain Esdale, Paymaster Capt. Trivett, Lt Cmdr Lewis, Lt Cmdr Wilkinson, Engineer Capt. Doyle. Middle Row (l-r) Commander Clark, Commander Langford, Commodore Muirhead-Gould, Paymaster Cmdr E. Kinesford-Smith, Stubbs Chaplain Bottom ...
Loss of HMAS Altana – New Years Day 1946
In the Pacific region during World War II the Royal Australian Navy was caught up in history’s greatest naval conflict in which numerous large sea/air battles were fought. There were ...
Leyte Gulf – the RAN in the Biggest Naval Battle of all time
Loss of HMAS Canberra – 9 August 1942
Search for the German Asiatic Squadron – 1914-1916
Ville de Bordeaux – Incident At Port Adelaide – 1841
USS Mount Hood – Catastrophe 1944
MS Ramses – 1942 – Blockade Runner
HMAS Sydney – Memorial
Letters: U Boats in the Atlantic
I enjoyed Sub Lieutenant A J Staal’s essay printed in your December 1991 issue of The Naval Historical Review. However, I would take issue with his statement “they continued their ...
Letters: HMAS Tingara
I feel compelled to respond to the article by Lt. Swinden, RAN, in the December issue of the Naval Historical Review, entitled “HMAS Tingira – 1912-1927, a Legacy of Service”. ...
Letters: Loss of the HMAS Terka
Re the article on HMAS TERKA in the March 1992 edition of the Bulletin, readers may be interested in the following note. During the late 60s and early 70s, one ...
Letters: HMAS Terka and the Clearance Diving Team
I was very interested to read in the March Bulletin the history and background of HMAS Terka submitted by D J Davis. I was the second in command of Clearance ...
The Factors that Led to the Formation of the RAN in 1911
Obituary: Commodore Rodney Rhoades – The man who fed Tobruk
Commodore Rodney Rhoades RAN, who commanded HMAS Vendetta of the celebrated “Scrap Iron Flotilla” which supplied Tobruk during the World War II siege, has died in Sydney. He was 83. ...
Maritime Change: Issues for Asia – Conference Report
HMAS CERBERUS – An Overview
Often referred to as The Cradle of the Navy, HMAS CERBERUS is the premier training establishment of the Royal Australian Navy and has a complement of 132 Officers, 310 Senior ...
The Attack on Darwin – A Pictorial Record
A Brief History of HMVS Cerberus
In 1866, the Government of Victoria requested a ship from the British Admiralty to bolster the Colony’s defences. At this time, in England, a new type of ship designed for ...
Antarctic Lubricants
SCOTCH & ICEBERG Lieutenant John Pain RANR (Ret), an Ansett Airlines career man and personal helicopter pilot to the late Sir Reginald Ansett, gave an enthralling address recently to the ...
HMAS Tingira – Legacy Of Service (1912-1927)
HMAS Sydney – Rottnest Island Guardship
It is a little known fact that HMAS SYDNEY II, one of the Royal Australian Navy’s major warships in World War Two “hid” off Rottnest Island at the approaches to ...