The Australian Government signed an agreement with waterfront trade unions to ensure a minimum of industrial disputes during the building of two guided missile frigates at Williamstown Dockyard, VIC. It ...
Australian Naval History on 25 November 1983
Australian Naval History on 19 November 1983
The Wessex celebrated 21 years of service in the RAN and the occasion was marked with a flypast of RAN Wessex, Iroquois and Sea King helicopters as well Royal Navy ...
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1983
RADM G. Woolrych, AO, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet. ...
Crimea Battle was Forerunner of Combined Operations
HMAS Canberra’s 1935 cruise
Showing the Flag Around Australia By Civilian Observer This account of HMAS Canberra’s 1935 cruise was printed in the Sun & Guardian dated 8 December, 1935. The cruise was made ...
Australian Naval History on 30 September 1983
Former HMAS Colac ceased service as a tank cleaning vessel. After nine years in Reserve, Colac had been taken in hand in 1962 for conversion to a tank cleaning vessel. ...
The Loss of HMAS Armidale
HMS Victorious 1785 – 1970
Australian Naval History on 27 August 1983
The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS GAWLER, was commissioned at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 26 August 1983
In a small ceremony conducted in the small boats harbour at HMAS Stirling HMAS Adroit was turned over to the Commanding Officer of the Fremantle Port Division Commander Don Bantock, ...
Australian Naval History on 2 August 1983
HMAS GAWLER, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 July 1983
HMAS GAWLER, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned at Cairns, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 July 1983
Commander June Baker appointed as Executive Officer HMAS Penguin (the first woman to be appointed as a RAN Executive Officer—Second in Command. (*Actual day of month unknown) ...
The J Class Submarines
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1983
Operational flying of jet aircraft in the RAN ceased. ...
Passing of a friend: USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)
With the recent commissioning of the new American cruiser USS TICONDEROGA (CG-47) readers may be interested in the former ship of the name, the aircraft carrier of the Essex Class, ...
USS Keppler (DD765) – Some Facts and Figures
LAID DOWN: 23.4.44. LAUNCHED: 24.6.45. IN SERVCE: 23.5.47. Photograph shows U.S.S. KEPPLER in U.S. Navy Service. KEPPLER at this time was a converted gearing DD-710 class FRAM II destroyer and ...
Letters – Correction to Italian Navy Pictorial
The March 1983 issue of `Naval Historical Review’ featured an article on the Italian Navy which I found quite fascinating. I would query, however, the picture of the `Venezia’ (ex ...
Letters – Cradle of the RAN
Williamstown may have been the cradle of the Victorian Naval Forces and the Commonwealth Naval Forces, but there seems little doubt that from the inception of Australia’s own Naval Forces ...
Letters – ‘Detail Action’
The poem “Detail Action” in the March issue, and which you state may have been attributed to “Gatey” Crawford, was in fact written by Gerald O’Driscoll, R.N. Under the name ...
HMAS Australia – Visit to Gallipoli – 1936
During the Abyssinian crisis in 1936, H.M.A.S. Australia and Sydney were serving with the Mediterranean Fleet, the former having been on exchange with H.M.S. Sussex and the latter was temporarily serving ...
Obituary: Harry Adlam
HAROLD CHARLES (HARRY) ADLAM grew up in Penshurst, Sydney. Economics dictated that he leave school at the age of 14. However, he educated himself and ended up with a better ...
Australian Naval History on 17 June 1983
HMAS Snipe decommissioned. Snipe remained in the Reserve Fleet until she was sold in 1985 to be broken up. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 June 1983
HMAS BENDIGO, (patrol boat), rescued the cross-Pacific rower Peter Bird, after his boat broke up off Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, QLD. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 June 1983
The personnel strength of the RAN was 17,198 officers and men. ...