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Occasional Papers

The Society periodically publishes Occasional Papers which are distributed with the monthly newsletter ‘Call the Hands’ to members and non-members.

Admiral Patey Our First Fleet Commander

The RAN Torpedo Factory, Neutral Bay

Operation Estes

HMAS Tarakan Fire: January 1951

The rescue of Tony Bullimore

The Lost Patrol a story by Eric Deshon

RAN Encounters with Papua New Guinea’s Big Rivers

Grandfather was a Cableman

Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie (Mac) Jesse Gregory RAN (Ret)

Boxing in the Navy

Teddy Sheean and Victoria Cross Awards to Naval Personnel

Invidious Choices: The German East Asia Squadron and the RAN in the Pacific: Aug to Dec 1914

A Fascinating Piece of History: Japanese Surrender Ceremony Onboard USS Missouri

Operation Bursa: use of Naval Air Support in Protection of Australian Oil Rigs 1980-1989

Gulf War: Logistics Support for RAN Ships: Operation Damask 1990-1991

RAN Ships at Japanese Surrender Ceremonies September 1945

Royal Australian Navy in the Pacific War

A Curious Spectacle

Operation Musketeer – the 1956 Suez Crisis, RAN Members’ Involvement

Current Australian Ship Building Projects

The Kerr Sydney-Emden Medals

Recognition for the Scrap Iron Flotilla

The Early Years (1970-1971) OF HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41)

The Loss of HMAT Ballarat

Two Proud Ships HMAS Ships Brisbane I and II

HMAS Assault_WWII Combined Operations Directorate Establishment – Port Stephens NSW

The Navy and the 1918-19 Influence Pandemic

The Royal Australian Navy’s Commitment to the Vietnam War

World War 2 Arrived on the Australian Mainland: Thursday 19th February 1942

Ballarat or Ballaarat? Badges and Flags, Divisive or Not?

Spitfires in the Royal Australian Navy

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) – Entering Troubled Waters

The Ships Garden on Garden Island, Sydney

The Naval Garden on Garden Island, Sydney

Bristol Sycamore HR50/51 Helicopter

Tasmania and the Navy from Colonial Days until Today

The Battles for Leyte Gulf an Australian Perspective

Sailors, Soldiers and Two Wars Protector

HMCS Protector – 1900 to the Present

Malta Revisited: Wartime Memories of HMAS Vendetta’s Malta Sojourn in World War 2

The Navy in South Australia from Colonial Days to Present

From a Periscope to a Cricket Pitch in a Matter of Days: The Surreal Nature of War

Naval Gigs: Past and Present

Postcards Home

Francis James Ranken

The Naval Ode and Laurence Binyon

Recollections of founding the Naval Historical Society

Reuben Mitchell DSM, RAN – Survivor of HMS E14

The Church Pennant

Petty Officer Fredrick Harold Harvey and Colombian Naval Service

The RAN and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Attack Class Patrol Boats

The RAN’s 118th Birthday Address and 1919 in Retrospect

Firefly Aircraft Operations 1945 -47: The Good Times and The Bad Times

HMAS Anzac (II) – the last ‘Battle’

HMAS Anzac (III) Naval Gunfire Support 21 March 2003, Al Faw Peninsula

Lieutenant Kenneth Robert Hudspeth, Distinguished Service Cross and 2 Bars, RANVR, WWII

HMAS Adelaide – Boarding Party, Persian Gulf 2004

The Fairey Gannet A/S1 in the Royal Australian Navy

The Press vs RAN Cricket Match 25 January 1933

German Fleet Surrenders in 1918

SS William Dawes – A Ship is Burning

Secret History of the First Australian to be given Penicillin

Lieutenant Commander Paul Hugill Hirst Compelled to Resign

Letter by Stoker Mechanician James Ashwood of HMAS Sydney (3)  8 May 1949

Sinking of HMAS Parramatta (2) Personal Accounts

Paddle Steamer Weeroona

HMAS Cerberus – Early History and Observations

HMAS Voyager (I) or What’s in a Coat of Paint?

Captain Edmund Anstice, RN

HMAS Hobart

Captain Frederick M. Piggott RD, RNR

Cockatoo Island – An Historical Account

Royal Naval House, ‘Jonnies’, Some Personal Reminisces

Salvage of the German Seehunde Midget Submarine 1945

Sydney Harbour Minefield

Recovery of German Bieber class Midget Submarine and Torpedo

HMAS NESTOR – The Remarkable short life of the ship that never came home

The loss of HMAS KUTTABUL

The Gustavo Stefanini Story

Personal Experiences  – Japanese Midget Submarine Attack in Sydney Harbour

Local Australian/USA Submarine Initiative Helps Turn The Tide Of War Against Japan In 1942

LCDR Mackenzie Jesse Gregory and Savo Island

The sinking  of HMAS ARMIDALE on 1st December 1942

HMAS Australia 1940 rescue

Battle of Bita Paka

Alexander Ruan CAW

Jack Rupert Law_WILLIS

Battle of the Alantic

1913 Fleet Entry

Four Ensigns Associated with Garden Island

HMAS Advance

Loss of HMAS Vampire 9 April 1942, 75th Anniversary Memorial Address

RAN Ships Lost

LCDR Ken Brown RAN Retd

HMAS Melbourne II

HMAS Darwin Decommissioning

TOBRUK – The Lifting of the Seige

Operation DAMASK – HMA Ships BRISBANE and SYDNEY

Battle for Australia Commemoration Address by CO HMAS Kuttabul

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