WE OFTEN HEAR people talk about the ‘good old days’, but how good were they really? Take punishment in the services as just one instance. Here we find that the ...
Punishment in the services – The Good Old Days
The Loss of HMS Dorsetshire
The Royal Yacht Britannia
Australian Naval History on 3 June 1983
HMAS SNIPE, (Ton class minesweeper), was decommissioned at Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 May 1983
The Fremantle class patrol boat HMAS BENDIGO, was commissioned. BENDIGO was laid down at North Queensland EA, Cairns, QLD, and launched on 9 May 1983. Mrs Lynam, (Wife of RADM ...
Australian Naval History on 20 May 1983
HMAS ACUTE, (patrol boat),was paid off in Darwin and commissioned into the Indonesian Navy as the KRI SILEA. She joined her sistership, HMAS BARRICADE, renamed KRI SIGALU, which was given ...
Australian Naval History on 28 April 1983
HMAS BENDIGO, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 April 1983
The Australian Government announced that HMS INVINCIBLE, (aircraft carrier), would be renamed HMAS AUSTRALIA when she joined the RAN. As a result of the Falkland’s War the British Government decided to retain ...
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 ...
HMAS Una – a Work Horse – 1914
ONE OF THE SPOILS from the capture of the German New Guinea colonies in 1914 was the steam yacht Komet. Built in 1911 as the Government yacht for the colonies, ...
Spakhia
ON A SMALL BAY on the south coast of Crete is a village or township called Spakhia. Landward approaches are steep-to and the harbour has – or had – no ...
No. 191 – the Tasmanian Torpedo Boat
The Battle of Kolombangara
In darkness and quiet of the morning, As the squadron steamed steadily north The admiral signalled a warning, That Jap warships were–sallying forth. We knew not their size nor their ...
Book Review: Yield Not To The Wind
Yield Not To The Wind By: Margaret Clarence. Published by the author This is an easy book to read, as the subject is extremely interesting, and once you pick it ...
A Peaceful Scene – Sydney 1921
H.M.A. Ships Encounter and Australia with Huon and two other “Rivers”, and Tattoo and two other S class boats laid up in Sydney Harbour in 1921. ...
Detail Action
The following poem “Detail Action” has been attributed to CPO Fred “Gaity” Crawford, the well known identity of the Boys Training Ship “Tingira”, and this could quite possibly be true. ...
Letters – HMAS Pioneer as a Midshipman
Early in 1914 1 did an extended period of training in HMAS Pioneer, as a Midshipman RANR. One Saturday in April, 1914, when Pioneer was in Corio Bay to give weekend ...
Royal Italian Navy Pictorial
In days gone by the Royal Italian Navy was quite a large force, many novel types of ships appeared in its navy list. The following photographs, all from the Peter ...
Cradle of the RAN – Revisited
In our last Review we published a short history of HMAS Cerberus at Crib Point. The title, or rather sub-title, drew a sharp comment from Commander R.S. Veale, RANR Rtd. Commander Veale points out ...
Australian Naval History on 5 March 1983
HMAS CESSNOCK, (Fremantle class patrol boat), was commissioned. ...
HMS Puriri 1938, NZ Navy
BEFORE WORLD WAR II the Anchor Line twin-screw vessel Puriri, of 927 gross tons, built by Henry Robb Ltd. of Leith and launched on 25th October 1938, was considered as ...
HMNZS Philomel
The cradle of the Royal New Zealand Navy HMNZS PHILOMEL is the name of the naval establishment at Devonport, Auckland, in New Zealand. This story is not about the naval ...
Australian Naval History on 29 January 1983
LEUT G. A. Ledger, RAN, piloted an Iroquois helicopter in a hazardous night operation to rescue 13 passengers trapped in four cable cars over Keppel Harbour in Singapore, during a ...
Tacoma Class Frigates of the United States Navy
WHEN THE UNITED STATES entered the Second World War the US Navy was still completing its rebuilding program. In the major fighting types great strides had been made, but there ...
HMAS Pioneer – The RAN’s First Cruiser
IN A PREVIOUS ISSUE of the Naval Historical Review we gave a short resume of the career of the 3rd class protected cruiser Pioneer in the Royal Navy. Let us ...