On reading the recent publication “Fair Winds to Australia”, author Mr Lew Lind, and subsequent article regarding Services Reconnaissance Department in Naval Historical Review (December 1988), I feel obliged to inform Mr ...
HMAS Black Snake
Services Reconnaissance Department Memorial
Perhaps the least known of service memorials in Australia is that to the Services Reconnaissance Department which is located on Garden Island, Western Australia. It is appropriate the memorial has ...
Australian Naval History on 9 September 1945
HMA Ships BUNDABERG, KAPUNDA, BLACK SNAKE, RIVER SNAKE, and ML 1343, plus army craft used by SRD, AM 1629, AM 1499, AM 1983, and AM 1985, accepted the Japanese surrender ...
Australian Naval History on 30 December 1944
Three officers and 22 ratings of the RAN lost their lives in the Indian Ocean during the year, as a result of enemy submarine attacks on Allied shipping. The services ...