The signing of the surrender document on Tokyo Harbour on 2nd September, 1945, ended World War II. These two photographs depict the scene on that memorable day. Representatives of all ...
Tokyo Bay – 2nd September 1945
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 ...
Australian Naval History on 5 December 1972
HMA Ship ODIN, (submarine), an RN submarine on loan to the Australian Fleet for training purposes, joined the First Australian Submarine Squadron at Sydney. ...
The Maxim was the Maximum
THE MAXIM GUN was adopted by the Royal Navy in the 1880s. It was used with good effect in the Benin Campaign (modern Biafra) in 1896. The two seamen of ...
Seapower Saved Australia A 28 Year Old Lesson in Naval Strategy
On December 10 1944 the First Naval Member, Australian Commonwealth Naval Board, Admiral Sir Guy Royle, KCB, CMG, in an address to the Fleet expressed the opinion printed below. The ...
Confrontation at Constantinople
HMS Chatham – New Zealand’s First Cruiser
Rankin of Yarra
HMAS Diamantina – The Last of the RAN River Class Frigates
Late 19th Century Naval Journals and Memoirs as History
The Victorian Navy
Captain H. M. L. Waller DSO and BAR, RAN
Two of a Kind – but Different
The Battle of the Coral Sea – May 4-8,1942
Australian Naval History on 24 August 1972
HMAS Parramatta gained the distinction of being the 1000th vessel to enter the Captain Cook graving dock in Sydney since it commissioned in 1945. ...
Old Fighting Ships Began Navy Tradition
Australian Naval History on 18 August 1972
The Australian Government purchased outright HMAS DUCHESS, (Daring class destroyer), from the British Admiralty. The purchase price was $ 150,000. ...
HMAS Parramatta – the RAN’s First Fighting Ship
HMAS PARRAMATTA, the first fighting ship of the Royal Australian Navy. PARRAMATTA now [Ed. August 1972] rusts on the mud flats above Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River but in the next ...
HMAS Sydney in the North Sea
The four photographs in this series are from the collection of Rear Admiral G. B. Moore, C.B.E. HMAS SYDNEY operated in the North Sea in the last years of World ...
Shenandoah at Port Melbourne, 1865
The arrival of five American ships including the Confederate raider SHENANDOAH in early 1865 startled the residents of Port Melbourne. The raider’s visit triggered an international crisis and involved the British Government in ...
HMS Orlando at Cockatoo Dock – 1887
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British Pacific Fleet- 1945
Australian Naval History on 25 July 1972
HMAS Duchess was at sea carrying out surface and anti-aircraft firings before joining Melbourne on rescue destroyer duties. At 12:35, during a surface firing run, a 4.5-inch round from ‘B’ ...
Australian Naval History on 6 July 1972
HMAS GASCOYNE, (frigate), left Melbourne under tow for breaking up in Japan. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 July 1972
The wreck of HMAS WARRNAMBOOL, (minesweeper), sunk by a mine in 1947 off the coast of Queensland, was sold to the Southern Cross Diving and Salvage Company. ...