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HMAS Sydney I

Occasional Paper 162: Port Phillip’s Fleet Review 1920

Gillett, Ross · May 2, 2023 ·

By Ross Gillett “In the perfect beauty of the crisp autumn afternoon, the Prince of Wales made his triumphant entry to the homeland of the Anzacs in the Australian destroyer ...

I Name this Ship….

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2022 ·

By Mary White The following article is taken from the July 1948 edition of The Navy magazine and is reproduced by kind permission of the Editor. The parish of St. ...

Occasional Paper 91: Invidious Choices – The German East Asia Squadron and the RAN in the Pacific, August to December 1914

A.N. Other · Oct 6, 2020 ·

By Lieutenant Commander Desmond Woods RAN This paper was first published by the Australian Naval Institute online and in an abbreviated form the by the UK Naval Review and by ...

Occasional Paper 82: The Kerr ‘Sydney-Emden’ Medal

Editorial Staff · Jun 27, 2020 ·

This paper, was first published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia in the March 2013 edition of the Naval Historical Review. On 9 November 1914 the RAN cruiser HMAS ...

Last Voyage of the Ayesha

A.N. Other · Mar 27, 2020 ·

By A. C. B. Mercer Stranded on Direction Island, in the Cocos Keeling Group, 50 German sailors and their commander from the cruiser Emden, which had been engaged by HMAS ...

Before her time – the tale of Navy’s first female sailor

David Stratton · Sep 25, 2019 ·

Twenty-one years before the first Women’s Royal Australian Navy members (WRANs) entered service due to a shortage of telegraphists during the Second World War, a young Tasmanian girl was enlisted ...

Scapa Flow Revisited

A.N. Other · Dec 13, 2018 ·

By Walter Burroughs The name Scapa Flow was synonymous with naval operations in both world wars as a safe anchorage for vast fleets seeking to control access to the seaborne ...

Book Review: THE LAST CRUISE OF A GERMAN RAIDER   –  THE DESTRUCTION OF SMS EMDEN

Book reviewer · Dec 10, 2018 ·

THE LAST CRUISE OF A GERMAN RAIDER   –  THE DESTRUCTION OF SMS EMDEN by Wes Olson. Seaforth Publishing, Pen and Sword Books, Barnsley, United Kingdom, 2018. Hard Cover, 274 Pages, ...

The Emden Guns

A.N. Other · Dec 10, 2018 ·

By Wes Olson When the small German cruiser SMS Emden was destroyed by HMAS Sydney at the Cocos-Keeling Islands on 9 November 1914 the British Admiralty was presented with a unique opportunity ...

HMAS Melbourne in WWI – a Diarist’s Perspective

Kingsley Perry · Jun 22, 2016 ·

By Kingsley Perry  George Henry Iles was born at Norwood, Surrey on 11 December 1883 and later joined the Royal Navy where he became a cook. On 14 October 1912 ...

SMS Emden – Painting by Numbers

A.N. Other · Mar 23, 2015 ·

By Walter Burroughs The final voyage of SMS Emden and her eventual demise when cornered by HMAS Sydney is an action-packed drama which grips the imagination. Emden was a magnificent ship with a ...

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”. ...

Invidious Choices – The German East Asia Squadron and the RAN in the Pacific, August to December 1914

A.N. Other · Dec 23, 2014 ·

By Lieutenant Commander Desmond Woods, RAN  This article was presented by the author at the Anglo-German Naval Race and WWI at Sea Conference held at Portsmouth, England in July 2014. ...

The RAN and the Capitulation of German New Guinea

Pfennigwerth, Ian · Mar 24, 2014 ·

In August 1914 the Australian government responded with caution to a British suggestion that it might undertake the destruction of the radio stations located in German colonial possessions in the ...

They Also Served: Supply Commander Eric Kingsford-Smith

Swinden, Greg · Mar 24, 2013 ·

By Greg Swinden The original version of this article was first published in the Supply Newsletter and has been reproduced with minor amendment. Also included is a copy of a ...

The Kerr ‘Sydney-Emden’ Medal

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2013 ·

By Paddy O’Brien On 9 November 1914 the RAN cruiser HMAS Sydney engaged and destroyed the German light cruiser and commerce raider SMS Emden. This one and a half hour ...

The Career of Vice Admiral Mortimer L’Estrange Silver, CBE, RN.

A.N. Other · Mar 3, 2012 ·

By Midshipman D.M. Greenwood, RAN  Damian Greenwood was born in Hong Kong. After completing high school at Forbes in NSW he attended the University of Hong Kong where he gained ...

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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 ...

HMAS Adelaide 1918 – 1949

Andrews, Grahame, (Honorary Life Member) · Jun 30, 2005 ·

Although this obsolete light cruiser was not sent to the front line of any war zone in WW2, she was kept active and must be considered a lucky ship, as ...

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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 ...

Captain Glossop describes Emden action to Banjo Patterson

Patterson, Andrew Barton (Banjo) · Mar 19, 2000 ·

November 1914 – En route for the Great War as a correspondent. We have two battalions of infantry on board. A topsy-turvy force this, for the Brigadier, General MacLaurin, has ...

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WW2 Bickley Naval Guns at Rottnest Island W.A.

Jeffrey, Vic · Dec 6, 1997 ·

It has often been incorrectly thought that the two 6-inch guns located at the World War Two Bickley coastal gun battery came from the famous World War One cruiser HMAS ...

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Obituary: John Bastock RAN 1908-1996: Naval Artist

Zammitt, Alan · Sep 5, 1996 ·

RAN serviceman, naval artist, writer. Born Sydney, February 18, 1908. Died Padstow, July 26, 1996, aged 88. In 1913, when he was five years old, John Bastock perched on his ...

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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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