The Loss of HMS Ambuscade – 14 December 1798 (Napoleonic War) Author unknown: found in our archives This account of a small single-ship action dispels the general idea of an ...
Warships
Australia’s First Warship – The Torpedo Boat Acheron
Which was Australia’s first ‘real’ warship is a question often asked by naval historians. Today, what colony you originally came from or where you now reside, could be important elements ...
Sail Drill in HMS Endymion – Port Phillip Bay, 1869
Extract from the recollections of the late Captain Draper MN [Ed:”The Flying Squadron was especially formed under the command of Admiral Phipps-Hornby for a specific world circumnavigation cruise, designed to ...
An Atlantic Convoy 1798-1799
Napoleon’s Fleet – Found Buried in Seabed off Egypt
CAIRO – Two centuries after a historic battle destroyed Napoleon’s hopes of crushing the British Empire, the French Emperor’s fleet has been discovered entombed in the depths of an artifact-rich ...
Nelson’s coffin – Yet another version
Here is another version of the story of Nelson’s Coffin: Captain Hallowell sent a party to salvage wood from L’Orient. Months later, when he was afraid that the adulation being ...
Stoker Hanlon – Dead men tell no tales
The Athenian Trireme – Design and History
Korean Turtle Ship
The Korean Turtle Ship is considered to be the first ironclad warship in the world, shaped like a turtle, invented and built by Admiral Yi Soon in 1592. From a ...
Royal Australian Naval Operations 1914
I FEEL THAT THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY of the Royal Australian Navy should not be allowed to slip away without brief mention of the operations carried out by the Navy in ...
When it all Began – the Arrival of the First Royal Australian Naval Fleet
The J Class Submarines
HMAS Fantome 1901 – 1956
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS of ‘gunboat diplomacy’, the Royal Navy maintained a large number of sloops designed for overseas service, powered by both steam and sail. By the turn ...
Coal Ship — A Memory
Spitfire – The First Australian Built Warship
SINCE THE FORMATION of the Royal Australian Navy in 1911 hundreds of Australian built ships have served under the White Ensign, ships ranging in size and types from small Channel ...
No. 2285 EOC – BL 6” Gun, HMAS Melbourne, history 1912 to present
The Gift Fleet
The Gift Fleet – from the RN to Australia, 1919 WITH THE END OF THE GREAT WAR the Imperial Government found itself with a considerable number of naval vessels on ...
Slow Boat to China – USS Wachusett, 1865
First of the Line – HMAS Albatross, first aircraft carrier
WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER1 emerged from the 1914-18 war as a major weapon of war, it was inevitable that the Royal Australian Navy – with the largest island continent in ...
The Submarine AE2 in World War One
The Solent Review – 1909
Alphabetical List Of British Warships Reviewed by the King in the Solent, 1909. 1 H.M.S. Achilles Armoured Cruiser 13,550 tons Comdr. Wm. C.M. NICHOLSON 2 H.M.S. Adventure Scout 2,670 tons ...
HIRMS Rynda Arrives
Cruise Of HMS Australia – 1889 to 1893
Australia Station ships – HMS Torch and HMS Sealark
HMS Torch joined the Australian Station in February 1897 Originally the Consuelo, HMS Sealark joined the Australia Station in 1910 ...
