THE MAXIM GUN was adopted by the Royal Navy in the 1880s. It was used with good effect in the Benin Campaign (modern Biafra) in 1896. The two seamen of ...
Publications
Seapower Saved Australia A 28 Year Old Lesson in Naval Strategy
On December 10 1944 the First Naval Member, Australian Commonwealth Naval Board, Admiral Sir Guy Royle, KCB, CMG, in an address to the Fleet expressed the opinion printed below. The ...
Confrontation at Constantinople
HMS Chatham – New Zealand’s First Cruiser
Rankin of Yarra
HMAS Diamantina – The Last of the RAN River Class Frigates
Late 19th Century Naval Journals and Memoirs as History
The Victorian Navy
Captain H. M. L. Waller DSO and BAR, RAN
Two of a Kind – but Different
The Battle of the Coral Sea – May 4-8,1942
Old Fighting Ships Began Navy Tradition
HMAS Parramatta – the RAN’s First Fighting Ship
HMAS PARRAMATTA, the first fighting ship of the Royal Australian Navy. PARRAMATTA now [Ed. August 1972] rusts on the mud flats above Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River but in the next ...
HMAS Sydney in the North Sea
The four photographs in this series are from the collection of Rear Admiral G. B. Moore, C.B.E. HMAS SYDNEY operated in the North Sea in the last years of World ...
Shenandoah at Port Melbourne, 1865
The arrival of five American ships including the Confederate raider SHENANDOAH in early 1865 startled the residents of Port Melbourne. The raider’s visit triggered an international crisis and involved the British Government in ...
HMS Orlando at Cockatoo Dock – 1887
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British Pacific Fleet- 1945
The Touch and Go War
Coastwatching Remembered
Admiral Dumaresq-A Son of Australia
SYDNEY CAN CLAIM with a great deal of pride that it is the birthplace of a man who has made not only Australian, but Commonwealth Naval History. In the harbourside ...
