The February 1979 edition of the magazine, `Parade’, featured an article `Life and death of the YARRA’ describing the epic wartime service of the sloop, HMAS YARRA, from the time ...
Australian Units
The Last Chapter of HMAS Moresby II
The first page of the last chapter has just turned over as 1997 will be the final year for HMAS MORESBY (II). She is due to pay off in November ...
Letters: Astern Refuelling: HMAS Brisbane (1)
Re Naval Historical Review December 1997: HMAS BRISBANE The photograph of HMAS BRISBANE shows the ship under way and fuelling by the astern method. The tanker in this case is almost certainly ...
Australian Naval History on 31 January 1998
The Collins class submarine, HMAS FARNCOMB was commissioned at Adelaide, SA. FARNCOMB was laid down in the Australian Submarine Corporation, and launched on 15 December 1995. ...
Australian Naval History on 14 December 1997
The former destroyer escort HMAS SWAN was sunk as a dive wreck in Geographe Bay, WA. ...
Obituary: Captain Morton Henry Moyes OBE RAN
The Loss of HMAS Voyager I – Timor, 1942
I would like to comment on the loss of HMAS Voyager I – Monograph No. 25, transcript by Commodore Bryan Cleary, RAN (Rtd). I was serving in HMAS Voyager at the time ...
WW2 Bickley Naval Guns at Rottnest Island W.A.
Australian Naval History on 13 November 1997
HMAS Moresby decommissioned, having steamed 1,170,421.7nm (or 2,167,620.9km) in 88,241.8 hours underway. She retired as the oldest ship in the fleet at 33 years of age, and was the last ...
Letters – Quickmatch and Chapel Windows
I have received the March 1997 issue of the “Naval Historical Review”, which I am glad to note is up to the usual high standard. I would like to comment on ...