As this edition of the Review contains an in-depth article on Cape York and Somerset it is opportune to include this discussion point. An example of one of the many ...
HMAS Moresby I
The Moresbys and Norfolk Island
Last Link With HMAS YARRA Gone
On 23 July 2005, Mrs Molly McLean (the widow of LCDR R W Rankin, RAN) passed away in Charters Towers, QLD. She was 92 years old. Molly was born Mary ...
Devotion to Duty in Darwin – Laurance Ernest Tozer RAN
Letters – Japanese surrender in Timor
There was a uniqueness about the RAN involvement in the Japanese surrender ceremonies in Timor, raised in Peter Evans’s (Fairmile Association) letter in REVIEW Vol 19 No. 2 when he ...
Letters – The Pathos of Palawan
As usual Max Thomson has entertained us with an interesting story ‘The Pathos of Palawan’ (Vol. 19, No. 1, (January) 1998). Although not part of the main story, he touches ...
Obituary: Geoffrey Ingleton 1908-1998
The Last Chapter of HMAS Moresby II
The first page of the last chapter has just turned over as 1997 will be the final year for HMAS MORESBY (II). She is due to pay off in November ...
Biography of Lieutenant Commander R.W. Rankin RAN, and the loss of HMAS Yarra
Lieutenant-Commander R.W. Rankin of HMAS Yarra
On 14th August, 1992, shortly after HMAS CRESWELL’S annual Passing Out Parade, Miss Trish Rankin presented her father’s medals to Captain C.S.H. Harrington, RAN, Commanding Officer of HMAS CRESWELL. Fifty ...
Obituary: Rear-Admiral H.A.S SHOWERS, CBE
HMAS Moresby, Survey Ship
HMS SILVIO was one of four World War I Royal Navy Minesweepers converted to Survey Ships in 1922-25. Sister ships were Iroquois, Ormonde and Herald. In 1925 Silvio was lent ...
Family Saga -The Westons & The Johnstons – 1764 Onwards
Corvette Maryborough 1941-1946
HMAS MARYBOROUGH was built by Walker’s Ltd at Maryborough, Queensland and commissioned by Lieutenant Commander G. L. Cant, RAN on 15th June, 1941. Known as the Bathurst class of mine-sweepers, ...
First of the Line – HMAS Albatross, first aircraft carrier
WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER1 emerged from the 1914-18 war as a major weapon of war, it was inevitable that the Royal Australian Navy – with the largest island continent in ...
The RAN in Antarctic Waters
Australian Naval History on 14 March 1946
HMAS Moresby paid off and on 3 February 1947 she was sold for breaking up to Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd. She was subsequently scrapped at Newcastle, NSW ...
Australian Naval History on 3 October 1945
HMAS Gympie, in company with HMA Ships Moresby, Hawkesbury (I), Katoomba and Gladstone, were present at Koepang in Portuguese Timor for the surrender of the 48th Japanese Division. A naval ...
Australian Naval History on 11 September 1945
Japanese forces on Timor signed the surrender document on board HMAS MORESBY, (survey vessel/escort). ...
Australian Naval History on 7 September 1945
The sloop HMAS Moresby (I), accompanied by ten other Australian warships (including HMAS Parkes) and two Dutch vessels, sailed from Darwin to conduct the ceremony of surrender of all Japanese ...
Australian Naval History on 11 April 1943
The Japanese submarine I-177 torpedoed the Yugoslav merchant ship RECINA, 19 miles off Cape Howe. Nine survivors were picked up by HMAS MORESBY, (survey ship). The minesweeper HMAS PIRIE, (LCDR ...
Australian Naval History on 8 June 1942
HMA Ships ARUNTA, KALGOORLIE, ROCKHAMPTON, DOOMBA, MORESBY, BINGERA, YANDRA, KYBRA, and WHYALLA were assigned to convoy escort duties from Sydney as a result of the Japanese raid on Sydney Harbour. ...
Australian Naval History on 3 September 1939
The ‘Declaration of war on Germany’ was issued. The Imperial war telegram was received in Canberra at 2150. It read; ‘Total Germany, repeat, total Germany’. At 2115 in a radio ...
Australian Naval History on 20 June 1925
The surveying vessel, HMAS MORESBY (CAPT J. Edgell, RN), a former 24 class convoy sloop HMS SILVIO, was commissioned into the RAN in the UK. Moresby sailed from England for ...