Graeme Andrews, one of our long serving members with a sharp wit and fine pen, wrote an excellent article Cam’s Trawlers first published in the May 2006 edition of Afloat magazine. After ...
Ship sinking
The Loss of HMS Glowworm: an Australian Connection
By Greg Swinden War at sea has no intermissions, none of the periods of recovery between advances or retreats that land warfare enjoys, no breaks safely behind the lines between ...
SS William Dawes – A Ship is Burning (1942)
Operation Pedestal and the Tanker Ohio
Memorial: HMAS Canberra lost at the Battle of Savo Island
Naval Action at Darwin – 19 February 1942
HMS Thanet and HMAS Vampire – Malayan Night Action
The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 – Naval Operations
Remains of the Kriegsmarine Handed to the Allies – 1945
Of the heavy ships only the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and the light cruisers Nurnberg and Leipzig remained afloat (the latter a virtual wreck after being accidentally rammed by Prinz ...
The HMAS Sydney – HSK Kormoran Engagement (November 1941) – Part 2
The chase and sinking of the ‘Bismarck’
Loss of HMS Orpheus
Letters: Inquiry into the Loss of HMAS Sydney – Communications
The Tragedy of ‘Q’ Ship HMS Stonecrop – 1917
Q-ship sinks U-boat – HMS Stonecrop – 1917
Report:HMAS Sydney II-Possible and probable causes of loss
The Department of Marine Archaeology, Western Australia has produced a Report No. 104, by W.J. Olsen, investigating the possible and probable causes of the loss of H.M.A.S. “SYDNEY”. It is ...
Leading Seaman Ronald ‘Buck’ Taylor (1918-1942)
Ronald ‘Buck’ Taylor was born in Carlton, Victoria on 29 April 1918, one of ten children born to Elsie and George Taylor, and grew up in the Port Melbourne area. ...
Letters: Loss of Lord Kitchener with HMS Hampshire
I was very interested in Mr Date’s article, Lord Kitchener Lost with HMS HAMPSHIRE, in the December 1993 “Review”. As many people have considered the sinking of HMS HAMPSHIRE an ...
HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran – Possible and Probable Search Areas
HMS Hampshire – Loss Of Lord Kitchener
Loss of HMAS Altana – New Years Day 1946
In the Pacific region during World War II the Royal Australian Navy was caught up in history’s greatest naval conflict in which numerous large sea/air battles were fought. There were ...
