HMAS ARUNTA departs from HMAS STIRLING, for service in the Persian Gulf, as part of the Maritime Interdiction Force, (Operation SLIPPER), enforcing sanctions on Iraq. ...
Australian Naval History on 25 June 2002
Letters: Further Facts about the Sinking of HMS Tamar
Dear Sir, I was particularly interested to read your article “Capture of Hong Kong 1941 – the Naval Battle” [Dec 2001]. Cmdr Crowther was wrong to describe TAMAR as “the ...
Book Review: No Picnic
Title: No Picnic – An Account of the 1982 Falklands War by Author: Royal Marine Maj Gen Julian Thompson Publisher: Cassell. ISBN: 0-304-35647-6 This book, a revised edition of a ...
Book Review: War in a String Bag
Title: War in a String Bag – Autobiography of WW2 Fleet Air Arm Pilot Charles Lamb Author: Charles Lamb Publisher: Cassell ISBN:0 -304-35841-X This is an autobiographical account of Charles Lamb’s exploits in ...
Obituary: Commodore John B Snow RAN (1929-2002)
(Eulogy given by VADM D. W. Leach AC, CBE, LVO, RAN (Rtd) at the Memorial Service in the Chapel of St George the Martyr in HMAS WATSON on 4 May ...
Newspaper Report: Battle of the Falklands – December 1914
The Australian White Ensign
From its inception in 1911 the Royal Australian Navy flew as its distinguishing flag the White Ensign featuring the red cross of St. George handed down to it by the ...
Recollections of the SS Jervis Bay – a Path to the Sea
Queen Bee – Radio-Controlled Target Aircraft of the 1930s
Navies ignore threat of aircraft The emergence of airpower as a formidable weapon at the end of WW I was to a large extent ignored by Allied Navies as a ...
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 ...
Naval Action at Darwin – 19 February 1942
Some Truths About Darwin and the Air Raid – 19 Feb 1942
Australian Naval History on 30 May 2002
HMAS MELBOURNE, (CAPT S. R. W. McDowell, CSM, RAN), departs Sydney for a five month deployment to the Persian Gulf, to enforce maritime sanctions against Iraq, (Operation Slipper). She departed ...
Australian Naval History on 4 May 2002
The Huon class mine hunter coastal HMAS DIAMANTINA, (LCDR M.J. Rothwell, RAN), was commissioned. DIAMANTINA was laid down in ADI Yard, Newcastle, NSW, and launched on 2 December 2000. Mrs ...
Australian Naval History on 3 April 2002
HMAS Kanimbla II returned to Sydney after service in the Middle East as part of the maritime force assigned to Operation SLIPPER. ...
Australian Naval History on 16 March 2002
HMAS HOBART (D39) was scuttled in Yankalilla Bay, South Australia. She took 2 minutes and 17 seconds to sink. ...
Australian Government releases RFT for Patrol Boats
The Australian Government has released a Request for Tender (RFT) for a replacement fleet to the Royal Australian Navy Patrol Boats that provide the frontline of Australia’s defences against people ...
Book Review: The Pirate of Tobruk – Biography of Commander Alfred Palmer RNR
Book Review: Batavia’s Graveyard
Title: Batavia’s Graveyard Author: Mike Dash Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London The Dutch East India Company vessel Batavia ran aground upon Morning Reef in the early hours of the 4th ...
Obituary: Captain Brian de Courcy-Ireland RN (1900-2001)
Joining the Royal Naval College at Osborne on the Isle of Wight in 1913 at the age of 13, Brian de Courcy-Ireland was subjected to the spartan naval discipline of ...
Former HMAS Nirimba Site – Memorial Garden
On Saturday 3rd of November 2001, in overcast conditions, the Memorial Garden at the former HMAS NIRIMBA site, was formally dedicated. The service was conducted in front of some 150 ...
Commander Frederick Darley RN & the Wanhsien Incident
HMS Thanet and HMAS Vampire – Malayan Night Action
The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 – Naval Operations
Australian Naval History on 28 February 2002
HMAS Manoora II arrived in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation SLIPPER, Australia’s contribution to the war in Afghanistan ...