LIONEL HALSEY served in several posts closely associated with the RAN during the years immediately prior to, and following, its birth. To his distinction of having commanded the Australian Fleet ...
Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE, CB, DLJP 1872-1949
New South Wales Naval Forces
This article appeared in The Navy and Army Illustrated dated 15th October 1897. The New South Wales Naval Brigade was the least developed of the Colonial Navies for the obvious ...
Australian Naval History on 15 September 1975
HMS ODIN, the last Royal Navy submarine to serve with the Australian Submarine Flotilla, sailed from Sydney. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 September 1975
HMAS FLINDERS, (survey ship), completed the RAN’s first survey controlled by a satellite navigation system, off the coast of Bougainville ...
Australian Naval History on 5 September 1975
Two armament workers were killed in an explosion at the RAN’s Armament Depot, at Newington, Sydney. The accident occurred during the testing of a torpedo firing pistol. ...
Merchant Ship Losses in Australian Waters in WW2
Forty four Allied merchant vessels were lost by enemy action in Australian waters in World War II. With a total tonnage of 196073 the ships ranged from the 12568 ton ...
Australian Naval History on 20 July 1975
CAPT A. S. Rosenthal, DSO and Bar, OBE, RAN, died in Melbourne. ...
Australian Naval History on 17 July 1975
Skyhawk A4G (872) was part of a 5-ship flight conducting bombing practice at the Beecroft Head Firing Range, NSW. 872 pulled up off the range and collided with the underside ...
Australian Naval History on 4 July 1975
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), represented Australia at the United States Bicentenary Celebrations at New York. Fifty ships of 30 nations participated in the ceremonial entry into the port. ...
HMAS Bendigo – New Guinea 1942
Australian Naval History on 30 June 1975
The uniformed strength of the RAN was 16,115 officers and ratings. ...
White Lady of the North – HMAS Moresby
At the end of World War II most of the older small ships of the RAN, which had served valiantly in peace and war, were disposed of. At this time ...
Pacific Chase
Honorary Commodore – Captain A. V. Knight
This biography of Australia’s most distinguished Reserve Officer is told by his former First Lieutenant. Captain A. V. Knight, OBE, DSC, RD, US Legion of Merit RANR(S) Rtd, served with ...
A Century of Japanese Intelligence – Part IV
Origins of the QUEENSLAND Navy
Old Thunder and Lightning – the Origins of the Queensland Navy IT WAS A RUSSIAN SCARE in the eighteen seventies that caused the Queensland Government of the day to form ...
Ship Design at the Turn of the Century
The turn of the century produced an unusual range of warships as these photographs show: ...
Australian Naval History on 10 June 1975
The Australian Naval Institute was founded in Canberra, under the leadership of CDRE V. A. Parker, RAN. The Institute exists to advance knowledge and understanding of naval and maritime affairs ...
Australian Naval History on 12 May 1975
HMAS QUEENBOROUGH, the last of the five ‘Q’ class destroyers presented to the RAN as a gift by Great Britain, was towed out of Sydney, bound for Hong Kong and ...
Australian Naval History on 20 April 1975
The patrol boat HMAS AWARE, (LEUT G. Sproule, RAN), apprehended four Taiwanese vessels, and one Indonesian vessel, that were fishing in Australian territorial waters near Dampier, WA. ...
Sydney’s Walrus in battle with three Italian fighters
IN RESPONSE TO THE ARTICLE ‘Pusser’s Bus’ which appeared in the December issue, Vice-Admiral Sir John Collins, Sydney’s Captain in the Mediterranean, writes: ‘I feel sure that Sydney’s Walrus should ...
Surrender of Yokosuka Naval Base
A Century of Japanese Intelligence – Part III
In the third instalment of his article on Japanese Intelligence Lt.Cdr. Swan describes in detail the vast network of spies planted in California, Mexico and Hawaii by the Japanese. An ...
