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The Last National Serviceman – Part 3

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

Part II of this series appeared in the December 2023 edition of this magazine. By Robert Stephenson In 1952, after the acquisition of HMAS Sydney III, the Royal Navy lent ...

The Last Naval National Serviceman – Part II

A.N. Other · Dec 15, 2023 ·

By Robert Stephenson  Part I of this series appeared in the September 2023 edition of this magazine. Since that issue the following information has come to light. With the outbreak ...

The Last National Servicemen – Part I

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2023 ·

By Robert Graham Stephenson – Official No 7662 (NS) This article has been taken from an original paper written by Robert Stephenson and published by the National Servicemen’s Association of ...

End of an Era: Sail Training at Royal Australian Naval College

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2022 ·

By LCDR David Jones RAN Changing Times From 2022, sailing has been removed from the initial training curriculum for new entry officers at RANC. Non-motorised small boat handling, sailing and ...

Book Review: Like a Wicked Noah’s Ark – The Nautical School Ships Vernon and Sobraon

Book reviewer · Mar 1, 2022 ·

Like a Wicked Noah’s Ark – The Nautical School Ships Vernon and Sobraon A paperback of 362 pages by Sarah Luke, published by Arcadia, 2020. RRP $44.00.  As the old saying ...

Navy Gap Year Experience

A.N. Other · Mar 1, 2022 ·

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 ...

Palm Islands – a Naval Connection

A.N. Other · Jun 24, 2020 ·

By Walter Burroughs The Palm Islands and Challenger Bay affords a large sheltered deep-water anchorage, the last such facility on Australia’s east coast before reaching the northern extremity of the ...

HMAS Leeuwin

A.N. Other · Jun 30, 2017 ·

Recent planning for the redevelopment of the ex HMAS Leeuwinsite has aroused considerable interest amongst the naval community and we are pleased to have some further thoughts from Roy Stall, ...

Navy Training Today

A.N. Other · Mar 29, 2017 ·

By Captain Mal Ralston, RAN In 1903, the Commonwealth Naval Board was constituted under the Defence Act. One of its first responsibilities was to commence home-based naval training of young ...

The HMAS Melbourne-Voyager Collision: A Tragedy that Damaged and Reformed

A.N. Other · Dec 28, 2016 ·

By MIDN Mollie Burns, RAN – NEOC 54 Naval Historical Society Prizewinning Essay Introduction The collision of HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager remains the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) worst peacetime disaster. Occurring ...

Reflections on four decades in the profession of Naval Engineering – and Jacky Fisher got it right!

A.N. Other · Sep 24, 2013 ·

By Rear Admiral David Holthouse, AO, RAN (Rtd)  David Holthouse entered the Australian Naval College in 1950, just a few days after his 14th birthday. He had an outstanding career ...

Royal Naval Engineering College Manadon’s Centenary

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2012 ·

By Ron Robb  Most engineering officers serving in the RAN have at some time or other studied in HMS Thunderer, the Royal Naval Engineering College at Plymouth in England. Ex-students ...

816 Squadron – the Fighting Tigers

A.N. Other · Mar 13, 2012 ·

By LCDR Nick Hattersley, RAN “Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more; Or close up the wall with our English dead. In peace there’s nothing so becomes a ...

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Aviator or Seaman or Both?

van Gelder, Commander John RAN (Rtd) · Sep 1, 2005 ·

It is now comparatively rare for a naval aviator to also qualify as a seagoing watchkeeping officer, but in previous generations it was relatively straightforward and kept one in the ...

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HMAS Nirimba – End of an Era – 1993

A.N. Other · Dec 12, 1993 ·

The Defence Force Establishment at Quakers Hill, N.S.W. spent most of its life as part of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). This is fitting since the first non-Aboriginal people to ...

Letters: HMAS Tingara

Letter Writer · Jul 12, 1992 ·

I feel compelled to respond to the article by Lt. Swinden, RAN, in the December issue of the Naval Historical Review, entitled “HMAS Tingira – 1912-1927, a Legacy of Service”. ...

HMAS CERBERUS – An Overview

A.N. Other · Apr 26, 1992 ·

Often referred to as The Cradle of the Navy, HMAS CERBERUS is the premier training establishment of the Royal Australian Navy and has a complement of 132 Officers, 310 Senior ...

HMAS Leeuwin – a short history

Jeffrey, Vic · Sep 3, 1990 ·

HMAS Leeuwin to many is well remembered as the home of the Junior Recruits or J.R.’s of the Royal Australian Navy. This year marks the thirtieth year since the first ...

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