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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 48: HMAS Anzac (II) – thelast ‘Battle’

A.N. Other · May 26, 2025 ·

The following paper on the distinguished service of HMAS Anzac (II) wasfirst published in the March 2011 edition of the Naval Historical Review available on theSociety website. Other ships with ...

Ocassional Paper 47: HMAS ANZAC(FFH150) III Al Faw Peninsula Iraq -NGS MISSION

A.N. Other · May 26, 2025 ·

By Dennis J Weatherall JP TMAFAITT(L) LSM Volunteer Researcher, Naval Historical Society of Australia It took 31 years for the RAN to go to war and use a destroyer as ...

Occasional Paper 42: The day the entire German fleet surrendered – 100 years ago

Editorial Staff · May 21, 2025 ·

Armistice Day is remembered as the day World War One ended, but for naval historians Britain’s greatest victory came 10 days later.  Operation ZZ was the code name for the ...

Occasional Paper 39: Compelled to Resign THE STORY OF COMMANDER PAUL HUGILL HIRST RAN  1899-1963

Editorial Staff · May 20, 2025 ·

by Lieutenant Commander Terry Feltham RAN Ret’d “Just because something ends doesn’t mean it never should’ve been.  Remember, you lived, you learned, you grew and you moved on”.  Anon. Why ...

Occasional Paper 37: ALLAN CHARLES GREEN [1878-1954], the man behind the Photos

Editorial Staff · May 20, 2025 ·

In the State Library of Victoria we have an amazing photographic collection of ship photo thanks to Allan Green. He was born in Daylesford, in the Central Victorian goldfields on ...

Occasional Paper 36: HMAS Sydney (3) Delivery to Australia: 1949

Editorial Staff · May 20, 2025 ·

Our thanks go to Debbie Irwin for the letter by her uncle, Stoker Mechanician James (Jim) Ashwood of HMAS Sydney (3) to his sister Nancy dated 8 May 1949 about ...

Occasional Paper 35: Loss of HMAS Parramatta (II): First Hand Accounts

Editorial Staff · May 20, 2025 ·

Recently the Naval Historical Society of Australia was favoured with two handwritten letters from survivors of the sinking of HMAS Parramatta (II) off Tobruk overnight 27 November 1941.  The first ...

Occasional Paper 34: Paddle Steamer PS Weeroona

Editorial Staff · May 20, 2025 ·

Recently the attention of the NHSA was drawn to the possibility of a paddle-steamer serving in the RAN.  It appears that the closest was PS Weeroona built as a Port ...

Occasional Paper 33: HMAS Cerberus – Early History and Observations

Editorial Staff · May 20, 2025 ·

This paper was developed after locating a 1970 HMAS Cerberus Wardroom mess dinner menu.  The menu included observations by prominent citizens about HMAS Cerberus and its location at Westernport amongst ...

Occasional Paper 32: HMAS Voyager (I) or What’s in a Coat of Paint?

Editorial Staff · May 20, 2025 ·

During WWII ships of the RAN were painted in a number of different colour schemes as these photos of Voyager illustrate and information on both peacetime and wartime camouflage paint ...

Occasional Paper 30: HMAS HOBART

Editorial Staff · May 20, 2025 ·

Several events concerning the three HMA Ships Hobart come together with a memorial and commemoration service at the Garden Island Chapel on Sunday 22nd July 2018 at 10.00am. HMAS Hobart ...

Occasional Paper 29: Captain Frederick Melbourne Piggott RD RNR

A.N. Other · May 20, 2025 ·

Captain Frederick Melbourne Piggott RD RNR was born in the UK in April 1915 and moved to Australia in 1943 where he trained young men to handle a Dutch submarine. ...

Occasional Paper 27: Royal Naval House, ‘Johnnies’: Some Personal Reminisces

A.N. Other · May 18, 2025 ·

 Royal Australian Naval House has always been known affectionately as ‘Johnnies’, although the origin of the name is hard to trace.  From 1968 to 1970 a young Able Seaman Brian ...

Occasional Paper 23: HMAS Darwin Decommissioning

A.N. Other · May 18, 2025 ·

On 8 December 2017 the guided missile frigate HMAS Darwin was decommissioned in a ceremony at Fleet Base East, Garden Island in the presence of former crew and hundreds of ...

Occasional Paper 22: Attack Class Patrol Boats

A.N. Other · May 18, 2025 ·

 The following is an article from”All Hands” December 2017 edition of the Australian Maritime Museum Volunteers’  Quarterly Newsletter. By Wal Robson The museum’s popular patrol boat has a significant birthday ...

Occasional Paper 19: Surgeon Commander Alexander Ruan Caw, RAN MB BS. Adelaide 1879-1924

A.N. Other · May 18, 2025 ·

  Surgeon Commander Alexander Ruan Caw, RAN MB BS. Adelaide. 1879-1924 These biographical notes on CMDR Alexander Caw who served in HMAS Australia during World War 1 were provided by ...

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 ...

Occasional Paper 17: Fleet arrival in Sydney – 4 October 1913

Editorial Staff · May 18, 2025 ·

At an Imperial Conference held in 1909, it was decided to deploy toAustralian waters a naval unit consisting of at least a battle cruiser, three second class cruisers, six destroyers, ...

Occasional Paper 16: HMAS Australia and Atlantic rescue of Coastal CommandSunderland -1940

A.N. Other · May 17, 2025 ·

By LCDR Mac Gregory RANRetired   On Monday 28th October 1940. I was serving as an eighteen year oldMidshipman in HMAS “Australia”, an 8 inch gun cruiser. At that time, ...

Occasional Paper 14: HMAS Canberra and the Battle of Savo Island

A.N. Other · May 17, 2025 ·

LCDR Mackenzie Jesse Gregory RAN Ret, (9/02/1922- 27/08/2014) was tomy mind a fine example of the qualities a Naval Officer needed to have. He could communicate well, wasa leader of ...

Occasional Paper 12: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES: AFTERMATH OF JAPANESE SUBMARINE ATTACK: SYDNEY HARBOUR

Editorial Staff · May 16, 2025 ·

 The following are accounts of individual contributions made by two remarkable people in the aftermath of the Japanese midget submarine attack in Sydney Harbour on 31 May1942. Actions by these ...

Occasional Paper 11: THE REMARKABLE SHORT LIFE OF HMAS NESTOR THE SHIP THAT NEVER CAME HOME

A.N. Other · May 16, 2025 ·

            The following address was delivered Commander Walter Burroughs RAN Rtd during the 75th anniversary ceremony conducted by the RAN on Garden Island, Sydney 16 June 2017. I am honoured ...

Occasional Paper 10: THE LOSS OF HMAS KUTTABUL

A.N. Other · May 16, 2025 ·

The following address was delivered Captain Christopher Skinner RAN Rtd during the 75th anniversary ceremony conducted by HMAS Kuttabul on Garden Island, Sydney 1 June 2017. Good morning to you ...

Occasional Paper 9: THE SINKING OF HMAS ARMIDALE ON 1st DECEMBER 1942

A.N. Other · May 16, 2025 ·

The following address was delivered by Dr Kevin Smith OAM to members of the Naval Historical Society of Australia in Sydney 18 April 2017. In 1798 at the Battle of ...

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