This is the fifth, and undoubtedly the best, in an annual series of glossy, high quality, magazine style publications which seek to inform the Australian public about its Navy. It ...
Navies
Book Review: North of Gallipoli – The Black Sea Fleet at War 1914-17
Some years ago Commander (E) George Nekrasov, RAN gave a talk to the Naval Historical Society of Australia in Sydney on this topic. Subsequently he continued his research into the ...
Book Review: The Shame of Savo Island
The Battle of Savo Island in which HMAS CANBERRA was lost has been the subject of many books, analyses and articles, but in his powerful and enthralling work the author ...
Book Review: Q Class Destroyers and Frigates
“Q CLASS DESTROYERS AND FRIGATES OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY” (Destroyers 1942-1956) (Frigates 1953-1972) by Trevor Weaver, Published by The Naval Historical Society of Australia. At last a book has been ...
Book Review: The Quay to the Sea
By Captain Surtees M. Rothery The story begins with the author as a young lad growing up in the Vaucluse area of Sydney in the 1920s. Captain Rothery paints a ...
Book Review: HMAS Canberra – Iron Bottom Sound
HMAS Canberra lies at the bottom of Ironbottom Sound, her eight-inch guns still reaching vainly for the Imperial Japanese enemy which surprised and overwhelmed her with a hurricane of shell ...
Book Review: Small Ships at War
“SMALL SHIPS AT WAR” By Iris Nesdale There has been for quite some time, a need for the story of the Small Ships of the RAN, below Corvette size in ...
Book Review: Australia’s Navy 1992-93
This edition of the Navy’s Annual provides a colourful insight into the activities, roles and developments taking place within the Royal Australian Navy. It includes articles on: a. the Navy ...
Book Review: History of HMAS Maryborough
The History of H. M.A.S. Maryborough by Barney Ogle M.A., ex RANR, Murray & Ogle Pty Ltd, 1993. 240pp. Barney Ogle’s book on the history of the Australian-built Corvette, HMAS MARYBOROUGH ...
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 ...
Book Review: Mutiny on the Bounty
The Story of Captain William Bligh, seaman, navigator, surveyor and of the BOUNTY mutineers State Library of New South Wales 1991, Five authors, plates in col & b&w, Ind, 104 ...
Book Review: The Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney
Lew Lind, Bellrope Press, 74 pages with illustrations and maps. The Japanese midget submarine attack on ships in Sydney Harbour occurred almost fifty years ago and yet is still a ...
Book Review: HMAS Warramunga’s History 1942-1959
HMAS Warramunga’s History 1942-1959 by Sam Whyte HMAS Warramunga’s History 1942-1959 is exactly that. For anyone who served in her at any time during her life, I’m certain he will have flooding memories ...
Book Review: Action Stations
Action Stations by Iris Nesdale Action Stations in some ways disappointed me but it must be very difficult to write a book about two ships serving in the same area ...
Book Review: First In Last Out – The Navy at Gallipoli
First in, Last out – the Navy at Gallipoli By T R Frame and G J Swinden This is a timely book. It is 75 years since the landings at ...
Book Review: HMAS Shropshire
HMAS Shropshire by Stan Nicholls Published by The Naval Historical Society of Australia Published December 1989. 315 pp. Photos. Profile views. Press cuttings. Maps. Index. Limited edition. Hard cover. To ...
Book Review: Silencing debate on Shropshire
Mr Stan Nicholls wants to silence debate on what did and did not happen to HMAS Shropshire during World War II. So he has written a 330-page hard-cover book on ...
Book Review: Seagulls, Cruisers, and Catapults
By Ray Jones, 134 pages, Illustrated, Pelorus Publications, Tasmania – 1989 This fascinating book is not only a history of the amphibian aircraft used by the Royal Australian Navy but a ...
Book Review: Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945
Title: Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945 Author: Ross Gillett This book is published by Doubleday Australia with a suggested retail price of $35.00. It is the latest published book ...
No. 191 – the Tasmanian Torpedo Boat
Formation of the Royal New Zealand Navy
NZS Amokura – New Zealand’s First Training Ship
Success & Failure – The Story of the Torpedo Gunboat
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 ...
