THE SHIPS OF THE FIRST FLEET of the Royal Australian Navy were the product of the Imperial Conference of 1909 which culminated more than a decade of discussion by the ...
HMAS Warrego I
The RAN in the Black Sea
IN 1918 the Allies had cast their lot with the White Russians in the savage civil war which was raging in Russia. They offered to give support to any state ...
The Navy in New Guinea in 1914
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
HMAS Parramatta: First Born of The Commonwealth Navy
Old Fighting Ships Began Navy Tradition
Emden-Sydney Relics at Penguin
Relics of SMS Emden bask in the sunshine on the lawn of HMAS Penguin at Balmoral, Sydney. The principal relic is one of the German cruiser’s ten 4 1 inch ...
Australian Naval History on 27 January 1942
HMAS VAMPIRE and HMS THANET, (destroyers) launched a night attack on a superior Japanese force landing troops at Endau, Malaya. The destroyers penetrated the enemy line and engaged vessels on ...
Australian Naval History on 16 September 1929
HMAS WARREGO, (torpedo boat destroyer), arrived at Cockatoo Island, Sydney, for breaking up. The vessel sank alongside her wharf, and was finally broken up by explosives during WWII. ...
Australian Naval History on 19 April 1928
HMAS Warrego paid off. She was then handed over to Cockatoo Dockyard in October 1929 and was broken up in 1930. ...