(Extracts from a letter from Alexander (Rex) Lyons – 16.6.97) Dear Captain Cook, At the unveiling of the Destroyers Window, I mentioned that I could give you the address of ...
Australian Units
Letters: Ashes of Captain Ian McDonald
This is a letter from Mrs. I.H. McDonald (Widow of the late Captain I.H. McDonald RAN – N.H.S. “Review” March 1997) to the Maritime Commander Australia. Rear Admiral C. A. ...
Letters: Harmony at sea
The article in the last issue of N.H.R. Vol. 17, No. 4, (Harmony at Sea) (December 1996) about the employment of women sailors at sea (R.A.N.) was not only revealing ...
Belconnen Naval Wireless Station and HMAS Harman 1939-1996
Stoker Hanlon – Dead men tell no tales
Australian Naval History on 9 April 1997
Ex-HMAS VAMPIRE, (Daring class destroyer), was transferred outright, as a gift from the Australian Government to the Australian National Maritime Museum, in Sydney. ...
Letters – Chapel Windows – what about Quickmatch?
The September 1996 issue of the `Navy Review’ proudly displays the glass windows depicting the `V’ & `W’, `N’, and Tribal Class destroyers, and rightly so. But, as a past crewman ...
Atlantic Rescue of Coastal Command Sunderland -1940
Obituary: Ian Hunter McDonald RAN (1915-1996)
On 25 November 1996, 55 years to the day of the sinking of HMS Barham, in which he was serving and when 862 of his shipmates lost their lives, Captain ...
The Naming of USS Canberra (Follow-up Article)
Australian Naval History on 9 January 1997
HMAS ADELAIDE’s Sea King helicopter was launched to conduct the rescue of round-the-world yachtsman Theirry Dubois. Dubois was winched onboard the helicopter later that morning and was described as “being ...
Australian Naval History on 7 January 1997
The tanker, HMAS WESTRALIA, (CMDR Ladomirski, RAN), sailed from HMAS STIRLING to support HMAS ADELAIDE in her rescue of two round-the-world solo yachtsmen, (Frenchman Thierry Dubois, and Briton Tony Bullimore). ...
Australian Naval History on 6 January 1997
PC3 Orion aircraft from 92 Wing, (RAAF Edinburgh), located the capsized yachts, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, and EXIDE CHALLENGER, in the Great Southern Ocean, and dropped life rafts. The guided missile frigate, ...
Holbrook – Submarine Town, Australia
In December 1914, Lieutenant Douglas Norman Holbrook, RN, captain of a small old submarine, B11, penetrated the narrows in the Dardanelles and sank the Turkish cruiser, MESUDIYEH. This earned him ...
Binoculars from the Past
One of Australia’s major naval tragedies of World War II has had its echo in Canberra more than 50 years later. Commodore (retired) M. Rayment of the Royal Australian Navy, ...
The Harrington Papers – Queensland Defence Force (Marine) 1900-1907
HMAS Bendigo – A RAN Corvette in Singapore – February 1942
Australian Naval History on 13 September 1996
HMAS SWAN, (destroyer escort), was decommissioned at HMAS STIRLING, WA, after a career spanning 26 years. She was later gifted to the West Australian State Government, and sunk as a ...
Personalities – Able Seaman Thomas Bull (1882-1937)
The Naming of USS “Canberra” – 1942
The following correspondence is self-evident and highlights the warm relationship between the USN and the RAN during WWII. Canberra Dated September 1, 1942 Recd 9:43 a.m., 2nd Secretary of State, ...
Obituary: John Bastock RAN 1908-1996: Naval Artist
Australian Naval History on 27 July 1996
The Collins class submarine HMAS COLLINS, (CMDR P. R. Sinclair, RAN), was commissioned. COLLINS was laid down in The Australian Submarine Corporation Yard, Adelaide, SA, and launched on 28 August ...
Letters: Naming of HMAS Warramunga
There has been a successful and happy outcome to the saga of the naming of the new Warramunga. (See the March issue of the Review, page 21). The following letter ...
