As the Naval Historical Society was recently represented at similar events on both sites of the harbour our members might be interested in their reports. Unfortunately restricted access to the ...
Memorial
The Story of Ordnance Artificer Gordon Robertson
In the quiet Presbyterian Section of GoreHill Cemetery (Sydney), only 50 metres or so from the busy Pacific Highway upon which the people of the city travel to and from ...
Former HMAS Nirimba Site – Memorial Garden
On Saturday 3rd of November 2001, in overcast conditions, the Memorial Garden at the former HMAS NIRIMBA site, was formally dedicated. The service was conducted in front of some 150 ...
The Relocation of HMAS Parramatta Memorial
HMAS Parramatta, a torpedo boat destroyer of the River Class, launched in 1910, was the first ship of the Royal Australian Navy. It was decommissioned in 1928 and, with HMAS ...
Letters: Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Most of our readers will have been aware that the Queen unveiled the huge re-gilded statue of both her and her husband’s great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert, in London in October 1998. ...
USS Missouri – Final Berth at Pearl Harbor
The two ships that marked the beginning and the end of World War II for the US were linked yesterday, as the USS Missouri arrived at Battleship Row in Pearl ...
Captain Harvey Newcomb RN – Newcomb Building, HMAS Watson
On October 28, 1997 the Royal Australian Navy’s Surface Warfare School Building was formally renamed the “Newcomb Building”, commemorating the service of Captain Harvey Mansfield Newcomb. At the end of ...
ADFA Tour of the Gallipoli Battlefield – 1997
Memorial Window – RAN destroyers
At the Chapel of Remembrance, Garden Island, Sydney on Sunday, 15th July 1997 a memorial window commemorating the fifteen RAN destroyers which served in World War II was dedicated and ...
HMS Hood Memorial
Memorials to the loss of naval ships in UK are seldom seen but there is one of world-wide interest. The old Parish Church of Boldre, the building of which commenced ...