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Letter: HMAS Arunta and Operation Hamburger

Letter Writer · Mar 24, 2018 ·

Dear Editor The December 2017 edition of the NHR contains an article on the evacuation of Lancer Force from Timor by HMAS Arunta in January 1943. As my father was CO ...

Lieutenant (SP) H.L. Billman, DSC, RANVR

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2018 ·

By Hector Donohue Harold Leon (Bill) Billman had a relatively short war in the RAN of just three years, but as a bomb and mine disposal officer he was regularly ...

Another Coastwatcher – Ron (Dixie) Lee

Editorial Staff · Mar 24, 2018 ·

As told to our Editor by Ron (Dixie) Lee The December edition of this magazine contained a story The Last Coastwatchersfeaturing James (Jim) Burrowes. Mention was also made of endeavours ...

Australian Naval History on 9 December 2017

On This Day · Dec 9, 2017 ·

HMAS Darwin decommissioned ...

Letter: HMAS Platypus

Letter Writer · Dec 6, 2017 ·

Dear Editor, The article “HMAS Platypus– a Submarine Naval Base “  in the September 2017 edition of the NHR brought back memories of an earlier problem with the local residents ...

HMAS Arunta and Operation Hamburger

Editorial Staff · Dec 6, 2017 ·

Whichever way you looked at a Tribal class destroyer, she was not just handsome, she was beautiful. The balance between hull and superstructure and the proportions of her two funnels ...

Malta Revisited: Wartime Memories of HMAS Vendetta’s Malta Sojourn in World War II

A.N. Other · Dec 5, 2017 ·

We are indebted to ex Supply Assistant Gordon Hill for this wonderfully illuminating description of his wartime service in the destroyer HMAS Vendetta when based at Malta. The George Cross Island ...

HMAS Suva: the ship that shaped the future of the Australian Naval Station

A.N. Other · Dec 5, 2017 ·

By John Smith  Possibly not many have heard of HMAS Suva as she had an extremely short history as a commissioned Australian warship. She did however have the distinction of wearing ...

Australian Naval History on 1 December 2017

On This Day · Dec 1, 2017 ·

Retirement of the S-70B-2 Seahawk and AS350BA Squirrel helicopters from 723 and 816 Squadrons during a ceremony at Nowra ...

Australian Naval History on 1 December 2017

On This Day · Dec 1, 2017 ·

The AS350BA Squirrel Helicopter was retired from RAN service. ...

Occasional Paper 19: Surgeon Commander Alexander Ruan Caw, RAN

A.N. Other · Dec 1, 2017 ·

December 2017 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 ...

Occasional Paper 16: HMAS Australia and Atlantic rescue of Coastal Command Sunderland – 1940

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Oct 1, 2017 ·

October 2017 On Monday 28th October 1940, I was serving as an eighteen year old Midshipman in HMAS “Australia”, an 8 inch gun cruiser. At that time, we had arrived on ...

Australian Naval History on 23 September 2017

On This Day · Sep 23, 2017 ·

HMAS Hobart III, lead ship of the Hobart Class Airwarfare Destroyers, commissioned ...

‘Mission to Kerguelen’ – An Australian Military Operation in the Sub-Antarctic islands in 1941

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Rohan Goyne I refer to the excellent article Antarctica the forgotten Continent by Hugh Farmer in the Naval Historical Review Vol. 38 No2 June 2017 and offer the following ...

HMAS Platypus – a Submarine Naval Base

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Peter R. Smith This paper was prepared by the Submarine Institute of Australia to help mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the formation of a submarine base ...

Occasional Paper 14: LCDR Mackenzie Jesse Gregory

A.N. Other · Sep 1, 2017 ·

September 2017 LCDR Mackenzie Jesse Gregory RAN Ret, (9/02/1922- 27/08/2014) was to my mind a fine example of the qualities a Naval Officer needed to have. He could communicate well, ...

Occasional Paper 12: Personal Experiences: Aftermath Of Japanese Submarine Attack: Sydney Harbour

A.N. Other · Aug 1, 2017 ·

August 2017 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 May 1942. ...

Occasional Paper 10: The Loss of HMAS Kuttabul

A.N. Other · Jul 18, 2017 ·

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 1 December 1942

A.N. Other · Jul 1, 2017 ·

July 2017 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 ...

Occasional Paper 11: The Remarkable Short Life of HMAS Nestor, The Ship That Never Came Home

A.N. Other · Jul 1, 2017 ·

July 2017 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 ...

Book Review: HMAS Sydney II in Peace and War

Book reviewer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Wes Olson, Privately Published at Hilton, WA in 2016, 610 Pages with maps and photographs. Available direct from the author at email: wes.dale@westnet.com.au. Price $60.00 plus postage. Aside from ...

Book Review: HMAS Canberra – Casualty of Circumstance

Book reviewer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Kathryn Spurling, Publishers New Holland, Sydney, 2016. Paperback, 255 pp with b & w illustrations, maps and portraits. Available most bookshops from $33.00 with discounts available. The author served ...

HMAS Leeuwin

A.N. Other · Jun 30, 2017 ·

Recent planning for the redevelopment of the ex HMAS Leeuwinsite has aroused considerable interest amongst the naval community and we are pleased to have some further thoughts from Roy Stall, ...

Antarctica – the forgotten continent

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2017 ·

This article has been compiled from research conducted by Hugh Farmer, one of our new members providing invaluable volunteer assistance at the Boathouse. Antarctica occupies about 14,000,000 km2of mainly mysterious ...

The ‘Battle’ of May Island

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2017 ·

By Laurie Watson In the many memorial services to commemorate the centenary of World War I events, that commemorating the Battle of May Island is very likely to pass under ...

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