Lieutenant Commander Laurence R. Consadine served in the destroyer HMS Consort in 1949, at the time of the ‘ Yangstse Incident’. This involved the Royal Navy ships HMS Amethyst, HMS Consort, HMS London, and HMS Black Swan on the Yangtze River for three ...
The four funnel cruisers of the Royal Australian Navy
Mr John Bastok traces the career of the 4 four funnel cruisers of the RAN. In 1913 the battle cruiser HMAS Australia was escorted into Sydney Harbour by two of these light ...
39 destroyers have served the RAN; their stories
This talk was a preview of a book that Mr Harry Adlam was writing, to be called ‘Wallaby Destroyers’, about the 39 destroyers that had served up until that time ...
Before Federation in 1901 the colonies of Australia maintained their own mini-navies
Mr Harry Adlam gives an informed overview of the colonial navies that were supported by the ships of the Empire’s Royal Navy’s Australian Station, established in 1859. The separate colonies each ...
HMS Victorious had a proud record of service in World War 2. John Williams served aboard her and this presentation gives his personal recollections of this carrier in action
HMS Victorious was the third Illustrious-class aircraft carrier after Illustrious and Formidable. Her commissioning was delayed until 1941 due to the greater need for escort vessels for service in the Battle of the Atlantic but she soon saw plenty ...
Personal recollections of the pre-WW2 era of the Royal Australian Navy with Admiral Sir Victor Smith AC, KBE, DSC
Victor Alfred Trumper Smith, named after his uncle Victor Albert Trumper, the great Australian cricketer, entered the Royal Australian Naval College in 1927 as a Cadet Midshipman, and became a Midshipman ...
Lieutenant Commander WOC Roberts gives an account of HMAS Murchison in the Han River during the Korean War in 1951
The Han River Estuary does not merge into the sea, but loses itself in a spiderweb of narrow channel and mud flats: no place for ships to move or manoeuvre. ...
History of the South African Navy as presented 40 years ago by His Excellency John Oxley Ambassador for South Africa
This presentation by His Excellency John Oxley is informed and entertaining but is an example of these NHSA talks, recorded decades ago. South Africa and its armed services have changed ...
Captain B. Nobes provides an overview of the evolution of submarines and the development of the RAN’s submarine arm
This history of the submarine development is presented in this concise yet comprehensive overview from a RAN officer with a close association with such vessels, Captain B. Nobes, Commanding Officer ...
‘The Class of 1932’ as remembered by Rear Admiral Mussared as a ‘particular year’. He traces the careers of his ‘Jervis Year’ from their arrival at the Naval College through World War 2
Brynmor Wheatley Mussared entered the Royal Australian Naval College at Jervis Bay in 1932, as a young cadet. On passing out from the college in 1935 he was awarded ‘maximum time’ ...