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The Admiral was a Lady

Kingsley Perry · Dec 16, 2023 ·

By Geoff Barnes  This article first appeared in the Australian National Maritime Museum Newsletter All Hands Issue No 1161 dated September 2021 and is reproduced by kind permission of the ...

Women Leaders in the Royal New Zealand Navy

Editorial Staff · Jun 30, 2023 ·

The following article stems from a press release issued by the New Zealand Department of Defence on 8 March 2023. The attached photo and explanation have been kindly supplied by ...

The Seas of Change: Integrating Women aboard Australian Submarines

A.N. Other · Jun 25, 2022 ·

By LEUT L.M. Dunsmore RAN Earlier this year this essay was awarded the Naval Historical Society History Prize from candidates of the New Entry Officer Course 65. Publication was withheld ...

Mine warfare roles for Australian Women during the Second World War

Turner, Mike · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By Mike Turner  During WWII many Australian women worked in new defence support roles. The mine warfare roles were manning Mine Watching Posts, manufacturing moored mines and manning the RAN ...

Women in the RAN: The Conflict of Equality

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2016 ·

By MIDN Jaycob Humphreys, RAN  We have had other essays on this topic by female officers, but this perceptive discussion from a recent New Entry Officer Course student, is by ...

Australian War Brides at Sea

A.N. Other · Mar 22, 2016 ·

By Liz Colthorpe  In the autumn of 1946 the British aircraft carrier HMS Victorious undertook possibly her most unusual task, in transporting approximately 700 Australian war brides to their new British ...

Women in the Royal Australian Navy

A.N. Other · Dec 21, 2015 ·

By MIDN M. S. SCHIMMEL, RAN  – WINNER OF THE NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRIZE  Midshipman Mariella Savanna van der Riet Schimmel hails from Perth where she commenced a science degree ...

Letters: Harmony at sea

Letter Writer · Jun 3, 1997 ·

The article in the last issue of N.H.R. Vol. 17, No. 4, (Harmony at Sea) (December 1996) about the employment of women sailors at sea (R.A.N.) was not only revealing ...

Female Submariners

Periodical, In Depth (Submarine Association of Australia) · Mar 6, 1997 ·

In the last issue, Vol. 17 No.4 (December 1996) we published an article, “Harmony at Sea”. There is ongoing debate in various foreign navies on the merits of whether women ...

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Harmony at Sea

A.N. Other · Dec 26, 1996 ·

A copy of an unidentified magazine article came to our notice some weeks ago. It was headed “The Royal Navy”, and dealt with many facets of that Service in a ...

Letters: Women’s Volunteer Naval Reserve

Letter Writer · Mar 5, 1996 ·

[Ed: Dec 1995 edition from the Victorian Chapter: Osborne House and its maritime museum at Geelong was under threat to be sold by the local council. The site of the first Royal ...

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