HMA Ships MELBOURNE and BRISBANE represented Australia at the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Naval Review, at Spithead England. MELBOURNE was the oldest, and the largest ship at the Review. The youngest ...
Australian Naval History on 28 June 1977
The Fate of Singapore’s Guns – Japanese Report
In a previous issue of Naval Historical Review we published an article on the guns of Singapore and their ultimate fate. Mr. Bogart, a United States member of the Society, ...
The Passing of the Encounter 1902- 1932
An Australian with Jellicoe (1919)
Stuart sinks Gondar (1941)
The Life and Naval Career of Vice Admiral Sir Hugh David Stevenson, AC, KBE.
Australian Naval History on 15 June 1977
The Oberon class submarine, HMAS ORION, was commissioned. ORION was laid down in Scott’s Yard, Greenock, Scotland, on 6 October 1972, and was launched on 16 September 1974. Mrs Armstrong, ...
Australian Naval History on 11 June 1977
HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier), launched two of her Wessex helicopters, each carrying a World War II cannon, from a position off Crete, and delivered the pieces to the newly built ...
Australian Naval History on 25 May 1977
A Tracker aircraft from HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier), located the disabled Dutch ship IMPALA PRINCESS, in the Gulf of Aden, and directed a French destroyer to her assistance. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 May 1977
HMAS VENDETTA, (Daring class destroyer), made a high-speed dash to provide aid for 28 Vietnamese refugees, in a disabled vessel, drifting in the South China Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 May 1977
During exercises in the Indian Ocean, a Sea King helicopter from HMAS MELBOURNE, (aircraft carrier), crashed into the ocean. None of the crew were injured, and they were quickly rescued ...
Australian Naval History on 2 May 1977
HMAS SWAN sailed in response to an urgent request for medical assistance from SS Austral Moon. Two crew members had suffered serious injuries when the 30,000 tonne American freighter encountered ...
Australian Naval History on 2 May 1977
HMAS SWAN, (destroyer escort), was dispatched to render aid to an injured seaman in the US merchant ship AUSTRAL MOON, in the Tasman Sea. ...
Australian Naval History on 15 April 1977
RADM N. E. McDonald was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet. ...
South of Gallipoli
In our September, 1976 issue we featured an article entitled ‘North of Gallipoli’ in which the author, Commander George Nekrasov, wrote of the relatively unknown operations of the Russian Black ...
HMS Exeter at the Battle of River Plate
The Navy – Old and New
THE NAVY IN THE EARLY YEARS of the century prided itself in being capable of doing anything anybody else could do and do it better. It was the last years ...
The Legend of Arnold Green
The late Commander Arnold Holbrook Green, O.B.E., D.S.C. and Bar, R.A.N. became a legend in the Royal Australian Navy in his own lifetime. During the war a British Admiral informed ...
The Solent Review – 1909
Alphabetical List Of British Warships Reviewed by the King in the Solent, 1909. 1 H.M.S. Achilles Armoured Cruiser 13,550 tons Comdr. Wm. C.M. NICHOLSON 2 H.M.S. Adventure Scout 2,670 tons ...
Australian Naval History on 16 January 1977
The Minister for Defence, Mr D J Killen, announced the purchase of the roll-on, roll-off vehicular/passenger ship AUSTRALIAN TRADER for conversion to a training ship for the RAN. The ship ...
Japan’s Balloon Bombs
US member, Douglas Rubb, served on Admiral Halsey’s staff in the Pacific during World War 2. From mid-1942 until April 1945 he was closely connected with investigations into Japan’s secret ...
The Guns of Singapore
One of the great mysteries of World War 2 was the ultimate fate of Singapore’s batteries of 15 inch guns. Records do not clearly indicate whether all the guns were ...
RAN Guarded Nip Prisoners 1945-46
She Was the Best – HMAS Warramunga
Commander Alliston is well fitted to speak of Australian ships and Australian seamen. On 15th June 1941 while commanding HMS Javelin he went to the aid of HMAS Nestor, fatally ...
HMAS Quiberon
WHEN MR. MENZIES WAS IN BRITAIN in early 1941 it was suggested to him that the RAN should man the remaining three ‘N’ Class destroyers to make up a full ...