A full account of the design, construction and operation of the Royal Navy’s 42 monitors is contained in the book Big Gun Monitors by Ian Buxton. WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL and ...
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The Chindwin Flotilla 1945
THE DISASTROUS RETREAT of the British forces in Burma, their incredible heroism during the siege of Imphal and the eventual southward advance through the worst fighting terrain in the world ...
Genesis of the Australia
THAT THE FIRST AUSTRALIA of the RAN was a Dreadnought battle cruiser was largely due to a combination of accidents, rather than any coherent policy on the part of Great ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp – Antarctic Research 1947-1948
SPACE WILL NOT ALLOW ME to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1947-1948
Space will not allow me to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp mission, ...
The Torpedoing of HMAS Hobart 1942
Quiberon and a Deep U-boat – 1942
Japanese Battle-cruiser Kongo
The Ottoman Navy
The Infamous Conduct of Captain William Case and the crew of HMS
Kelly of the Fighting Fifth Flotilla – A brief history of HMS Kelly
Fateful Encounter – Sydney and Kormoran
HMS Illustrious – the first armoured aircraft carrier
HMAS Psyche – 1915
Captain Steve Arliss RN and HMAS Napier
This thumbnail sketch of Captain Steve Arliss, Captain (D), 7th Destroyer Flotilla was prepared by the late Rear-Admiral Becher as a helpful guidance for the Society’s history of the N ...
Captain James Bradshaw RN Extracts from his Journals 1801-1811
James Goodenough, Sailor and Humanitarian 1830 – 1875
HMAS Shropshire: 1928 – 1954
The Loss of HMS Kelly
HMAS Warramunga, the Second of the Australian Built Tribals 1942 – 1963
A Royal Salute with Live Ammunition – Korea, 1952
(This article was the winner in the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Essay Competition.) IN COPIES OF QUEEN’S REGULATIONS and Admiralty Instructions under the section Ceremonial is a Table of Gun ...
Two Years in HMS Renown 1943-45
I JOINED RENOWN IN MAY 1943, at Rosyth, as a brand-new Lieutenant (E), straight from Keyham; it was my first time in Scotland, and I well remember the difficulty that ...
The Second Battle of Sirte – Mediterranean, 1941
First of the Line – HMAS Albatross, first aircraft carrier
WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER1 emerged from the 1914-18 war as a major weapon of war, it was inevitable that the Royal Australian Navy – with the largest island continent in ...