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HMAS Yarra I

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 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 ...

Was Parramatta a Defender and Yarra a Druid, and would Warrego have been at home in Rio?

Driftwood · Dec 24, 2012 ·

By Driftwood The massive shipbuilding programs leading up to WWI were dominated by the construction of capital ships. These unsustainable programs involved increases in the national debt of Britain and ...

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 ...

Ping Wo’s Golden Secret

Eagles, James · Mar 30, 2004 ·

HMAS Ping Wo was not the most glamorous ship ever requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy. Described by at least one of her crew as a ‘rust bucket’, the 3105grt ...

The RAN’s Destroyers

Ramsay, O.G. · Mar 11, 1991 ·

Surely destroyers are the backbone of our Royal Australian Navy. Thirty-nine destroyers have served in the RAN since Foundation in 1911, from our first destroyers – HMA Ships PARRAMATTA (1), ...

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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 ...

When it all Began – the Arrival of the First Royal Australian Naval Fleet

A.N. Other · Sep 11, 1986 ·

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 ...

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Williamstown Naval Dockyard – Part 1

Sullivan, John · Sep 11, 1986 ·

Some 16 years ago, in the first or second issue of the ‘Naval Historical Review’, there appeared the first part of a two-part story on the history of Williamstown Naval ...

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The RAN in the Black Sea

Una, L.J. · Jun 23, 1984 ·

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 ...

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