In May of this year the Minister for the Navy, the Honourable Dr. Malcolm MacKay, announced in Parliament that HMAS Diamantina may be presented to the Naval Historical Society of ...
Publications
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 ...
Leyte Gulf – Biggest Sea Fight in History
The RAN in Antarctic Waters
The Southern Base of the RAN
The Navy’s Secret War in the Pacific
Admiral John Paul Jones and the ships that honoured him
From Warrior to Vanguard
British Landing Craft of World War II
Emden-Sydney Relics at Penguin
Relics of SMS Emden bask in the sunshine on the lawn of HMAS Penguin at Balmoral, Sydney. The principal relic is one of the German cruiser’s ten 4 1 inch ...
