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Dr Frederick Wheatley, Headmaster and Cryptographer

Editorial Staff · Sep 20, 2020 ·

A new book, Australian Code Breakers by James Phelps, has recently been published on the fascinating topic of wartime code breaking. As the front cover tells us this is the ...

Heart of Oak and Jolly Tars: a short reflection

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By John McGrath The refrain of Heart of Oak (yes, it is Heart not Hearts) are our ships, begins: ‘Heart of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men’. ...

Mine warfare roles for Australian Women during the Second World War

Turner, Mike · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By Mike Turner  During WWII many Australian women worked in new defence support roles. The mine warfare roles were manning Mine Watching Posts, manufacturing moored mines and manning the RAN ...

An Essay on the Forming of the Royal Australian Navy

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By Midshipman Lloyd Skinner  Lloyd Skinner attended Melbourne Grammar School, where he discovered a passion for Australian political and military history. Shortly after completing secondary education in 2019 Lloyd joined ...

RFA Bishopdale

Swinden, Greg · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By Greg Swinden RFA Bishopdale was a Royal Fleet Auxiliary Dale class freighting tanker that saw service during the period 1939-1959. As a freighting tanker her main role was to ...

The Ephemeral Commission of the Fremantle Naval Volunteers, Western Australia, 1879 – 1888

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By Ron and Ian Forsyth New information on the Fremantle Naval Volunteers, the only naval defence force to be established in the Colony of Western Australia, is documented in our ...

MV Ramses – Blockade Runner

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By Alan Bourne  This paper was prepared by Alan Bourne, son of Herbert (Bill) Thomas Bourne. Herbert was christened Hubert, which he disliked, and he enlisted in the RAN under ...

Chief of Navy grants permission for the Australian White Ensign to fly over the HMAS Sydney (II) Memorial at Geraldton, WA

Editorial Staff · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By LCDR Desmond Woods The HMAS Sydney (II) Memorial at Geraldton in WA has become a place of pilgrimage for 65,000 visitors each year. Some 20,000 arrive by sea on ...

Kings Cross in World War II

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2020 ·

By Nick Hordern In 2020 we celebrate the 75th anniversary year of the opening of the Captain Cook Dock which joined Garden Island to the mainland and we gained a ...

Palm Islands – a Naval Connection

A.N. Other · Jun 24, 2020 ·

By Walter Burroughs The Palm Islands and Challenger Bay affords a large sheltered deep-water anchorage, the last such facility on Australia’s east coast before reaching the northern extremity of the ...

The Navy and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Swinden, Greg · Jun 8, 2020 ·

The world is currently combatting the Coronavirus 19 (COVID 19) which originated in China and has now spread throughout the globe. So far, Australia has fortunately been spared the worst ...

Finding of Akagi and Kaga focuses attention on Japan’s formidable aircraft carriers
and the Darwin raid

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · May 27, 2020 ·

By Tom Lewis Dr. Tom Lewis OAM is a retired naval officer, and the author of 14 books. Some of this text was drawn from Carrier Attack, published in 2013 ...

Book review: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam 1965-72

Book reviewer · Mar 28, 2020 ·

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam 1965-1972. Second Edition. By John R. Carroll. First published in 2013, this second edition has been revised with ...

Book Review: A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Games Helped Win World War Two

Book reviewer · Mar 28, 2020 ·

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Games Helped Win World War Two. By Simon Parkin. Hardback and paperback, 329 pages, Hachette, 2019. From ...

The Solomon Islands and Bougainville Island

Editorial Staff · Mar 28, 2020 ·

By Walter Burroughs Political upheaval After thirty five years of a political alignment between the Solomon Islands and the Republic of China (Taiwan), on 22 September 2019 it was announced ...

Training Ship Nepean and Australian Navy Cadets

Editorial Staff · Mar 28, 2020 ·

Your Editor and Mrs. Burroughs were pleased to accept an invitation to attend the End of Year Parade held by TS Nepean on 30 November 2019. This is an unusual ...

Luzon: A 75th Anniversary Australian Battlefield Tour of the Philippines – Part 2

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By Paul Baker On the morning of 15 December 2019, a small ceremony was held at the Australian War Memorial in the forecourt of the Maritime Academy of Asia and ...

Border and Resource Protection: Past Challenges and Future Opportunities for the Royal Australian Navy

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

This essay won the New Entry Officers Course 61 Naval Historical Society History Prize, awarded in December 2019.  By Lieutenant Melissa Chen RAN1 Australia has unique problems and may thus ...

Appear where you are not expected

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By Lieutenant Commander Chris Watson RAN1 This essay won the Smith Prize, which is open to all members of the Department of Defence in the Chief of Navy’s 2019 Essay ...

Last Voyage of the Ayesha

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By A. C. B. Mercer Stranded on Direction Island, in the Cocos Keeling Group, 50 German sailors and their commander from the cruiser Emden, which had been engaged by HMAS ...

Warrant Officer of the Navy

Editorial Staff · Mar 21, 2020 ·

Handover Ceremony On 22 November 2019 a ceremony was conducted in the courtyard outside Russell Offices in Canberra to mark the handover of the important position of Warrant Officer of ...

Letter: The 9/11 Boatlift

Letter Writer · Dec 25, 2019 ·

Almost coincidentally we recently received correspondence from two readers, Megan Hughes and Tony Maskell, asking if we had knowledge of the 9/11 Boatlift Memorial in New Jersey. We trust the ...

Australians in the Decisive Thrust KING II – The Leyte Landings

A.N. Other · Dec 25, 2019 ·

 By Paul Baker Seventy-five years ago, on 18 October 1944, beaten only by the fast minesweepers and the attack forces securing the mouth of the Gulf, the crew of HMAS ...

Book Review: Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook’s Endeavour Voyage

Book reviewer · Dec 25, 2019 ·

The following review by Paul Brunton, the eminent curator of the State Library of New South Wales, first appeared in Cook’s Log Vol 42, No 2 (2019) the quarterly magazine ...

Book Review:   Collins of the Sydney

Book reviewer · Dec 25, 2019 ·

  By Tony Macdougall, published by Clarion Editions, 77 Lewis Street, Mudgee, NSW 2850. Tel: 02 6372 1387 or email: macdougallburns@bigpond.com.au. A quality paperback of 576 pages with many photographs ...

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