Sydney – Cipher and Search By Captain Peter Hore RN (formerly Head of Defence Studies for the Royal Navy and currently chairman of the research committee of the Society for ...
Australian Units
Australian Naval History on 9 November 2009
A de Havilland Canada DHC-8-202Q Dash 8 commenced flying for the R.A.N. Hydrography Institute. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 October 2009
HMAS Canberra II was scuttled in 28 metres of water off Ocean Grove, Victoria to create an artificial reef and diving site. ...
The Australians at Jutland
The Long Journey Home – Unknown HMAS Sydney Sailor
The Melbourne/Voyager Collision – Untold Story
Australian Naval History on 9 June 2009
HMAS Toowoomba II departed for the Middle East region. Toowoomba’s deployment was the Navy’s 45th individual ship deployment to the Middle East region since 1990 ...
Australian Naval History on 17 May 2009
Whilst transiting the ‘Internationally Recognised Transit Corridor’ in the Gulf of Aden, HMA Ships Sydney IV and Ballarat II came to the assistance of a merchant vessel, MV Dubai Princess, ...
Book Review: A Century of Carrier Aviation
A Century of Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of Ships and Shipborne Aircraft. By David Hobbs. Seaforth Publishing (2009). ISBN 978-1-84832-019-2. Reviewed by Commodore (P) John Da Costa RAN (Rtd) This large ...
Loss of HMAS Yarra – 4 March, 1942
HMAS Yarra, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Robert ‘Oscar’ Rankin, was sunk while defending a convoy against a vastly superior Imperial Japanese Navy squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Nobutake ...