ORIGINALLY THERE WERE THIRTY-THREE BUILT, comprising five classes in all. They were the torpedo gunboats of the Royal Navy, a smaller but faster variant of the traditional cruiser, but capable ...
Navies
New South Wales Naval Forces in 1901
WITH THE BASING of the Australian Squadron of the Royal Navy in Sydney, the State of New South Wales saw little need to raise a large naval force and turned ...
The Story of HMCS Protector
New South Wales Naval Forces
This article appeared in The Navy and Army Illustrated dated 15th October 1897. The New South Wales Naval Brigade was the least developed of the Colonial Navies for the obvious ...
Origins of the QUEENSLAND Navy
Old Thunder and Lightning – the Origins of the Queensland Navy IT WAS A RUSSIAN SCARE in the eighteen seventies that caused the Queensland Government of the day to form ...
Book Review: Australian Naval Administration 1900-1939
Author – Robert Hyslop It is fitting that the two most important works on the organisation and administration of the Royal Australian Navy should be written by a Secretary and ...
Australian Naval History on 13 May 1884
HMQS GAYUNDAH, (gunboat), was launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ...
Australian Naval History on 29 December 1860
The Naval Brigades of HMS PELORUS, (wood screw corvette), flagship of the Australian Station, and HMCS VICTORIA, landed at Kairau, New Zealand, to support British troops under attack from Maoris. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 December 1860
HMCS VICTORIA, (CMDR Norman, RN), landed a detachment of seamen, and captured Matarikoriko Pa, New Zealand. ...