In 1985 the Naval Historical Society (NHS) first donated an essay prize to the college. The prize consisted of a one-year subscription to the Society and a six-volume bound collection ...
Naval Historical Society
The Boatshed
This story may serve as a small tribute to Robin Stone who for many years was an invaluable volunteer at the Boatshed. In fact, she ran the place, being responsible ...
Navy Gap Year Experience
By MIDN Lloyd Skinner RAN The Navy Gap Year program was established to provide Sailor and Officer recruits the opportunity to undertake a ‘try before you buy’ approach to a ...
Book Review: Australia’s Colonial Navies
Australia’s Colonial Navies by Ross Gillett is a revised and expanded edition published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia and released in 2021. In the 21st century most Australians ...
One of the most challenging projects undertaken by the NHSA – salvaging the bow of HMAS Parramatta I.
Lew Lind, BEM, the man who was major force in creating the NHSA, and its first president, tells the story of one of the Society’s most challenging undertakings -the salvage ...
Occasional Paper 56: Recollections of founding the Naval Historical Society
June 2019 In 1970 Lew Lind, Rod Atwill, Alan Payne and myself found ourselves with the responsibility of putting together an association which we were to call the Naval Historical ...
Book review: The Rag Tag Fleet (and George Franki)
By Ian W Shaw. Published by Hachette Australia, Sydney, 2017. Soft cover of 310 pages with black & white photographs. Available from booksellers and online from $32.99 but discounts readily ...
The Society’s 40th Anniversary
What Ship Was That?
At the time of writing, John Smith was Vice President of the Naval Historical Society of Australia. Most of the members of the Naval Historical Society of Australia would presume ...
Obituary: Commodore John B Snow RAN (1929-2002)
(Eulogy given by VADM D. W. Leach AC, CBE, LVO, RAN (Rtd) at the Memorial Service in the Chapel of St George the Martyr in HMAS WATSON on 4 May ...
Obituary: Alan Zammit RAN (1927-1997)
One of the Australian Navy’s foremost enthusiasts, Alan Zammit, was buried on Thursday at South Head Cemetery. A man capable of organising other lives, he had organised his own dying ...
Obituary: Lewis James Lind 1922-1994
In The Beginning – The Naval Historical Society of Australia
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 1
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 5
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 3
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 4
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 2
Recollections of founding the Naval Historical Society
Foreword to the first issue
There can be no doubt as to either the importance or interest of the study of history to those who follow or support the profession of arms at sea. For example, the ...