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HMAS Encounter I

Occasional Paper 52: The RAN and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Editorial Staff · May 28, 2025 ·

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Issue 6 of Semaphore, the publication produced by The Sea Power Centre Australia in March 2006. We are indebted to them for their ...

Occasional Paper 17: ENSIGNS ASSOCIATED WITH SHIP BASED AT GARDEN ISLAND

Rivett, Norman C · May 18, 2025 ·

Flags have a long been a fascination of founding Society member Mr Norman Rivett as well as Garden Island in Sydney where he has worked and volunteered for more than ...

Book Review: Salt Horse

Kingsley Perry · Jun 2, 2024 ·

Salt Horse – Memoir of a Maverick Admiral, Claude Lionel Cumberlege. Published by Whittles Publishing Ltd, Dunbeath, Caithness KW6 6EG, Scotland. Admiral Claude Cumberlege RN wrote his memoirs in 1936-38, ...

Occasional Paper 62: The Navy in South Australia from Colonial Days to the Present

A.N. Other · Sep 16, 2019 ·

September 2019 By Dennis J Weatherall JP TM AFAITT(L) LSM, Volunteer Researcher, Naval Historical Society of Australia It’s reputed that the first sighting of the southern coast of our Great South ...

Occasional Paper 52: The RAN and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

A.N. Other · May 17, 2019 ·

May 2019 Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Issue 6 of Semaphore, the publication produced by The Sea Power Centre Australia in March 2006. We are indebted to them ...

HMAS Encounter (1905 – 1932)

Temp Author · Jan 5, 2015 ·

HMS Encounter served on the Australia Station and was later commissioned into the RAN. She played a vital role in defence of the eastern coast of Australia, and the anti raider patrols in the South West Pacific. She was regarded as “more beloved than any other unit of our fleet”. ...

The RAN and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Periodical, Semaphore · Sep 10, 2010 ·

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Issue 6 of Semaphore, the publication produced by The Sea Power Centre Australia in March 2006. We are indebted to them for their ...

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Obituary: Lieutenant W E Allen RAN (Retd) 1899-2005

A.N. Other · Dec 3, 2005 ·

Lieutenant Evan Allen, who died aged 106, was the last veteran to serve in the Royal Australian Navy in both world wars, and the last man to have seen both ...

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Australian Naval History on 25 October 2005

On This Day · Oct 25, 2005 ·

A State Funeral was held at HMAS CERBERUS for Mr Evan Allen, who was the last RAN veteran from WWI, and also the last member of the Australian forces to ...

90 Years on: Rabaul and Sydney/Emden 1914

Perryman, John, LEUT, RANR (Senior Naval Historical Officer) · Dec 31, 2004 ·

This article was originally published in ‘Semaphore’, the newsletter of the Sea Power Centre – Australia. It is republished with the kind agreement of the Sea Power Centre. This year ...

Portuguese Carronades – 16th Century Explorers to Australia?

A.N. Other · Mar 30, 2001 ·

An extract from “A Short History of Garden Island” Volume 2 by Chaplain V.W.Thompson RAN, followed by some comments by a Mr H.V.Howe Garden Island possesses a number of pieces of ordnance, ...

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Obituary: Captain Morton Henry Moyes OBE RAN

Storey, A.S, DSC, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Dec 6, 1997 ·

In 1997, the 50th anniversary of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition, it is most appropriate that the Naval Review should include a “salute” to Morton Henry Moyes. He was ...

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HMAS Encounter – Decommissioning at Port Adelaide

Sullivan, John · Jun 11, 1994 ·

On 12th April, 1915, the Commonwealth acquired land for the purposes of establishing a new naval depot in South Australia, to replace the existing depot at Largs Bay. The new ...

Australian Naval History on 21 March 1994

On This Day · Mar 21, 1994 ·

HMAS ENCOUNTER, (shore establishment at Port Adelaide), was decommissioned, marking the end of a century of naval presence in the Port Adelaide area. ...

Search for the German Asiatic Squadron – 1914-1916

Jarrett, Hugh · Jul 12, 1992 ·

At the outbreak of war on 4th August, 1914, the German East Asiatic Squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee, had its base at the fortified harbour of Tsing-tao on ...

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Royal Australian Naval Operations 1914

Hinchliffe, L.M. · Sep 24, 1986 ·

I FEEL THAT THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY of the Royal Australian Navy should not be allowed to slip away without brief mention of the operations carried out by the Navy in ...

The Old Fou Fou Band

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 1984 ·

No self respecting warship in the World War I era was without its Fou Fou Band. Originality was the keynote of a successful Fou Fou Band and from this photograph of ...

A Peaceful Scene – Sydney 1921

A.N. Other · Mar 21, 1983 ·

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. ...

HMAS Pioneer – The RAN’s First Cruiser

A.N. Other · Dec 31, 1982 ·

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 ...

The Navy in New Guinea in 1914

A.N. Other · Oct 30, 1982 ·

ON THE 11TH SEPTEMBER 1914, Lieutenant R.G. Bowen, RAN, with 25 men of the left half company of No. 6 Company of the Naval Battalion of the Australian Naval & ...

The Submarine AE2 in World War One

Smythe, D.H.D., AO, Commodore, RAN · Oct 31, 1977 ·

WHEN OUR COMMONWEALTH was proclaimed in 1901, submarines were about to begin appearing in the Royal Navy, where their introduction had been opposed for a long time. Captain Creswell, the ...

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Alan Payne – Naval Constructor Supreme

Payne, Alan · Mar 30, 1976 ·

A naval constructor may at first glance appear an odd subject for biography but there was nothing odd about Britain’s greatest builder of modern ships, Stephen Payne. This is the ...

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HMAS Encounter finds the Raider Seeadler

A.N. Other · Jun 30, 1974 ·

The story of the raider Seeadler has been told many times yet still thrills all who read of her audacity. In this article the disarming of the raider’s gutted hulk ...

Australian Naval Aviation – Part 1

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Dec 31, 1972 ·

THE HISTORY OF WORLD naval aviation began, tentatively, in the lighter-than-air era. As far back as November 1861, during the American Civil War, the Union Army – employing maritime techniques – released the Washington balloon from a remodelled coal barge, the G.W. Parke Curtis, to observe the enemy at Budd’s Ferry. ...

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Old Fighting Ships Began Navy Tradition

Henderson, Captain C.W. · Aug 19, 1972 ·

Whatever happened to those famous old fighting ships of World War I? Captain Henderson, a former Sydney pilot and a historian of note, draws on nostalgic memories in tracing the ...

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