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Occasional Paper 5: Ken Brown: Service in HMAS Nestor

Occasional Paper 5: Ken Brown: Service in HMAS Nestor

A.N. Other · Feb 1, 2017 ·

February 2017 By Warrant Officer Martin Grogan Mr Ken BROWN (aged 95) a retired RAN Lieutenant Commander and World War Two veteran was recently awarded the British Arctic Star.  This ...

Book Review: Bravo Zulu: Honours and Awards to Australian Naval People Volume 1: 1900-1974

Book reviewer · Dec 28, 2016 ·

By Ian Pfennigwerth. Echo Books, Geelong, 2016. Hardcover & Paperback with illustrations, maps and index, 775 pages. RRP from $65. Available through Echo Books at www.echobooks.com.auor from Ian Pfennigwerth at ...

Book review: The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945

Book reviewer · Dec 28, 2016 ·

By Peter Hennessy and James Jinks, Publishers Allen Lane, 2015, Hardcover & Paperback, 864 pages. RRP from $30. To many people the submarine is a mystery – what do they ...

First to Command!

A.N. Other · Dec 28, 2016 ·

Commander Norman Hamon Shaw OBE, RAN The first graduate of the RANC to command a warship By Commander Tony Vine, RANR Norman Shaw was born in Perth Western Australia on ...

The HMAS Melbourne-Voyager Collision: A Tragedy that Damaged and Reformed

A.N. Other · Dec 28, 2016 ·

By MIDN Mollie Burns, RAN – NEOC 54 Naval Historical Society Prizewinning Essay Introduction The collision of HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager remains the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) worst peacetime disaster. Occurring ...

Mine Hazards during Mine Clearance Operations by the RAN

Turner, Mike · Dec 27, 2016 ·

 By Mike Turner Awards for Rendering Mines Safe (RMS) operations give some indication of the hazards involved. The George Cross (GC) was awarded four times and the George Medal (GM) ...

Petty Officer Fredrick Harold Harvey and Colombian Naval Service

A.N. Other · Dec 27, 2016 ·

 As told by his son CMDR Vic Harvey, RAN, Rtd Fredrick Harold Harvey was a proud Geordie lad, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s suburb of Benwell, on 13 August 1899. Benwell in ...

The Swimmer/Sapper Attack at Vung Tau 23 May 1969

Linton, E.W. (Jake), BEM, MCD, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Dec 27, 2016 ·

By Hector Donohue and Jake Linton The following article describes the first swimmer/sapper attack involving CDT3 in Vietnam and is drawn mainly from the recently published book United and Undaunted ...

Petty Officer Fredrick Harold Harvey and Colombian Naval Service

A.N. Other · Dec 27, 2016 ·

 As told by his son CMDR Vic Harvey, RAN, Rtd Fredrick Harold Harvey was a proud Geordie lad, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s suburb of Benwell, on 13 August 1899. Benwell in ...

Meet the Artist: Ian Hansen

Editorial Staff · Dec 27, 2016 ·

The Naval Historical Society was recently privileged to receive a presentation by the renowned maritime artist Ian Hansen. We journeyed far and wide as Ian outlined a remarkable career and, ...

Un Sous-marin Français Construit aux Antipodes A French Submarine built in the Antipodes

A.N. Other · Dec 27, 2016 ·

By Commodore Bob Trotter OAM RAN (Rtd)1 ‘The year 1866 stood out because of a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon which doubtless has not yet been forgotten. Not ...

Submarines: The History and Future Underwater Warfare

Editorial Staff · Dec 27, 2016 ·

The following article is taken from a feature first broadcast on ABC National Radio on 25 June 2016. It is reproduced with the kind permission of the author Keri Phillips ...

Book Review: Waterline Warships

Book reviewer · Dec 14, 2016 ·

Waterline Warships by Philip Read. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley (UK) The author is a professional model maker who has been commissioned to build a static waterline model of the Ca class ...

Occasional Paper 3: Tobruk – The Lifting of the Seige

A.N. Other · Dec 1, 2016 ·

December 2016 December 9, 2016 is the 75th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Tobruk, the port on the north coast of Libya, that proved such a thorn ...

Occasional Paper 4: HMAS Melbourne II

A.N. Other · Dec 1, 2016 ·

December 2016 By Tom de Voil Introduction I recently had a brief article about HMAS Melbourne, the aircraft carrier, published and consequent on that I was asked to give this ...

Australian Naval History on 16 November 2016

On This Day · Nov 16, 2016 ·

After an earthquake on Nov 14 HMAS Darwin arrived at Kaikoura, New Zealand on 16 November in company with HMNZ Ships Te Kaha, Endeavour and Canterbury, USS Sampson, and HMCS Vancouver. Working parties were sent ashore ...

Occasional Paper 2: Operation Damask – HMA Ships Brisbane and Sydney

A.N. Other · Nov 1, 2016 ·

November 2016 The following story was contributed by Hugh Hyland. Hugh worked for the variously named Defence departments for over 50 years until retiring in December 2015. He held numerous ...

Australian Naval History on 7 October 2016

On This Day · Oct 7, 2016 ·

End of Operation Render Safe 2016 during which HMA Ships Diamantina and Huon spent two weeks finding and destroying unexploded WWII munitions in the waters around the Solomon Islands. The ...

Letter: Hits on HMVS Cerberus

Letter Writer · Sep 27, 2016 ·

The following was recently received from Ted Bell one of our members who is also a very useful internet boffin. Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about ‘the world’s ...

Book Review: John Jess, Seeker of Justice

Book reviewer · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By Elizabeth McCarthy. Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne, 2015. Paperback 320 pages. RRP $29.95 but discounts available. This book, published in August 2015, was written by a daughter of John Jess ...

Centenary of Shackleton’s Antarctic Rescue by the Chilean Navy

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By Dr. Carlos Tromben-Corbalán, Centre for Strategic Studies, Chilean Navy Tuesday 30 August 2016 was an auspicious day in the Chilean naval calendar marking the centennial of the rescue of ...

Able Seaman William Arthur Alfred Nye (1904-1974)

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2016 ·

As told by his son William Douglas Nye The last (June 2016) edition of this magazine contained an article relating to the life story of CPO William Henry Nye. In ...

Women in the RAN: The Conflict of Equality

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By MIDN Jaycob Humphreys, RAN  We have had other essays on this topic by female officers, but this perceptive discussion from a recent New Entry Officer Course student, is by ...

The Battles for Leyte Gulf: where Australian ships fought in one of the greatest battles in naval history

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By David Scott  David Horace Ford Scott grew up on a soldier-settler block near Holbrook, NSW but his parents were forced to walk off the property during the Depression and ...

Climate Change and ‘future wars between nation-states’?

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By John W. Wells (1) This controversial article takes us out of our normal comfort zone as the author has definite views which are not necessarily shared by the Society. ...

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