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Inside ‘Nuke School’, the elite US Training Ground preparing Australian Submariners for an AUKUS Future

Editorial Staff · Sep 5, 2023 ·

The following article has been taken from an ABC News summary of 8 July 2023.  In America’s deep south, a group of students has just completed one of the most ...

Occasional Paper 13: Local Australian/USA Submarine Initiative Helps Turn the Tide of War Against Japan in 1942

A.N. Other · Aug 1, 2017 ·

August 2017 The following story provided by Commodore Bob Trotter OAM RAN (Ret’d), National President of the Submarine Association is about a little-known part of the shared Australia/USA submarine history ...

Un Sous-marin Français Construit aux Antipodes A French Submarine built in the Antipodes

A.N. Other · Dec 27, 2016 ·

By Commodore Bob Trotter OAM RAN (Rtd)1 ‘The year 1866 stood out because of a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon which doubtless has not yet been forgotten. Not ...

Submarines: The History and Future Underwater Warfare

Editorial Staff · Dec 27, 2016 ·

The following article is taken from a feature first broadcast on ABC National Radio on 25 June 2016. It is reproduced with the kind permission of the author Keri Phillips ...

Book Review: The Sea Devils

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2015 ·

The Sea Devils by Mark Felton. Published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2015. Softback, 320 pages with photographs, rrp $27.99. A fascinating book on the exploits of the XE Midget ...

Submersible Aircraft Carriers

A.N. Other · Mar 30, 2012 ·

By Driftwood The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-yonhyaku-gata Sensuikan completed towards the end of WW11 were for many years the largest and potentially the most formidable submarines ever built. Displacing ...

Nuclear Submarines not an Option for Australia

A.N. Other · Sep 4, 2011 ·

By Hans J. Ohff After a career in engineering and commerce, Hans Ohff took an interest in economic history to earn his PhD from the University of Adelaide. He regards ...

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Submarine Duty 1918

A.N. Other · Sep 4, 2011 ·

By the late Captain W.J. Cowling, as told by his daughter Mrs C.M. Wood. At the beginning of WWI the Royal Navy (RN) had 70 submarines in commission, which was ...

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From Submersibles to SWUP: The First Seventy-five years of Submarines in Australian Defence and Naval Policy

Goldrick, James, Commodore, RAN · Sep 4, 2011 ·

The following article comprises the 2011 Creswell Oration address delivered by Rear Admiral James Goldrick, AM, CSC, RAN to the Navy League of Australia at Melbourne in March of this ...

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Australia’s Future Submarine Capability

Periodical, Semaphore · Mar 21, 2010 ·

  In the case of the submarine force, the Government takes the view that our strategic circumstances necessitate a substantially expanded submarine fleet of 12 boats … a larger force ...

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Book Review: The Collins Class Submarine Story

Book reviewer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

The Collins Class Submarine Story. By Peter Yule and Derek Woolner. Cambridge University Press (2008). ISBN – 13 978-0-521-86894-5 Reviewed by Tim Duchesne This enthralling and still controversial story is ...

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Stand-by to Snort, Standing Charge Starboard!

Duchesne, Tim · Dec 17, 2003 ·

An historical and simplified account of how submarines eventually managed to charge their batteries without surfacing. BY 1915, THE SUBMARINE was demonstrably, and for the first time, a weapon of ...

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Periscope Repair – Defects by Fin, Friend, and Feather

Haynes, Fred · Sep 29, 2003 ·

WHILE I CANNOT LAY CLAIM to being a submariner, I worked in the Periscope Workshop at Garden Island Dockyard (GID) and as such was closely involved with submariners in the ...

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Australia’s Submarine History – AE1 & AE2 To Collins

Smith, Peter · Jun 12, 1993 ·

On February 28, 1914, Australia’s first submarines were commissioned at Portsmouth, England. They were AE1 and AE2, boats which for very different reasons would become an important part of Australia’s ...

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Wartime Submarine Service

Piggott, Lieut. Cdr. F.M., RD, MNI, RNR. Rtd., · Mar 11, 1987 ·

Recollections of Lieut. Cdr. Piggott of his wartime service in submarines. PRIOR TO WORLD WAR II and general hostilities I had been serving as an officer in the Merchant Service ...

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