HMAS Balikpapan, along with her sister ship HMAS Betano, decommissioned in Darwin ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 11 December 2012
HMAS Wewak decommissioned ...
Letter: Piper Report and Dangers to Navigation
Dear Sir, Well done for the September issue of the Naval Historical Review. Another good read. May I say that as far as my service with the Royal Australian Navy ...
Letter: Allegations of abuse
Dear Editor I thought I would share my concern at the claims made on the ABC 7.30 report tonight. My concern is that the problem is portrayed as being systemic, ...
Letter: Wallaroo’s Submarine Attack
Dear Sir, I was very interested in Mr Les Heap’s report of Wallaroo’s submarine attack (NHR September 2012), outside Sydney Heads on 1 June 1942. Your Editor, in discussing the ...
Wallaroo’s Submarine Attack
On 14 JULY 2012 a short letter was received from Mr Les Heap of Lane Cove providing brief information, which may be historically significant, on the Bathurst Class minesweeper HMAS ...
HMAS Australia Night Order Book Raises Kamikaze Queries
Australian Naval History on 22 July 2012
HMAS Anzac (III) deployed to the Middle East region for Operation SLIPPER. ...
Nursing Memories of HMAS Penguin
By Christina Heath Christina Heath (nee King) served in the RAN Nursing Service first in a permanent role and later on a part-time basis in a reserve capacity for over ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp
Farewell to the LPAs
816 Squadron – the Fighting Tigers
The Career of Vice Admiral Mortimer L’Estrange Silver, CBE, RN.
Australian Naval History on 16 December 2011
817 squadron decommissioned and last Sea Kings withdrawn from RAN service ...
The Impact of Jet Propulsion on RAN Aviation Squadrons
The Sea Swapping Captain
Sydney-Emden battle stamps of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
By Richard Breckon Following from recent cover pictures of the June edition of the Review featuring Australian warships depicted on postage stamps the well known philatelist Richard Breckon has ...
Chloe and Sadie – or 100% Pitched and Ditched
This article is by Fred Haynes who for many years worked at Garden Island Dockyard firstly as a Scientific Instrument Maker and later as Technical Officer in charge of the ...
817 Squadron: You will miss us when we are gone
The Fairey Gannet A/S1
Introduction of the A4 Skyhawk into the RAN Fleet Air Arm 1967/1968
Number 1 RAN Pilots Course in Korea
By Fred Lane The story of the RAN’s first pilots course in Korea starts with a workup that began in earnest in late April 1951. The 21st Carrier Air Group ...
Australian Naval History on 13 December 2011
HMAS Choules commissioned into the RAN. The ship originally entered service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary on 28 November 2006 as RFA Largs Bay (L3006) ...
Australian Naval History on 25 November 2011
HMAS Kanimbla II decommissioned. ...
Letter: Fred Dawson
One of our members, Fred Dawson of Nowra, has written pointing out a few errors in articles contained in the March 2011 edition of the Review (Vol 32 No 1). ...