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Occasional Paper 90: A fascinating piece of history

Occasional Paper 90: A fascinating piece of history

Editorial Staff · Sep 6, 2020 ·

By Sheila Tolley This paper was published on a Blog entitled Tolley’s Topics 18 June 2019. Although Ms Tolley does not cite her sources, the psychology applied to setting the ...

Occasional Paper 89: Operation Bursa, Use of Naval Air Support in Protection of Australian Oil Rigs 1980-1989

Editorial Staff · Sep 6, 2020 ·

The following is a summary of a paper by Captain Marcus Peake RAN Ret’d, Webmaster of the Fleet Air Arm Association of Australia (FAAAA). The full story, published in August ...

Admiralty Fleet Dock 17 (AFD 17)

David Stratton · Aug 28, 2020 ·

The dock had been based at the Royal Navy Depot at Reykjavik, Iceland and was undertaking the longest ocean tow in history, at that time, from Reykjavik to Sydney, a ...

Occasional Paper 86: Royal Australian Navy in the Pacific War

A.N. Other · Aug 26, 2020 ·

By Richard H Pelvin and Jozef H Straczek This paper was provided courtesy of the Sea Power Centre – Australia. It was first published in 2003 and is available on ...

Occasional Paper 88: Gulf War: Logistics Support for RAN Ships Operation Damask: 1990-1991

Editorial Staff · Aug 26, 2020 ·

By David Michael This paper addresses the key aspects of; preparation, deployment and support for RAN units deployed for Operation Damask between August 1990 and March 1991. During this period ...

Occasional Paper 87: Disposition and Employment of Royal Australian Navy Ships following Cessation of Hostilities 15 August 1945

David Stratton · Aug 26, 2020 ·

By David Stratton, Hugh Farmer and Dennis Weatherall At the end of the War in the Pacific in August 1945 the strength of the Royal Australian Navy was 36,976 men ...

Australian Naval History on 12 August 2020

On This Day · Aug 12, 2020 ·

Retrospective VC awarded to Seaman Teddy Sheean for his actions during the loss of HMAS Armidale on 1 December 1942. It is the first VC for the RAN. ...

Occasional Paper 85: A Curious Spectacle

Editorial Staff · Jul 27, 2020 ·

By Brooke Twyford This paper was provided courtesy of Australian National Maritime Museum volunteers. It was published in the June 2020 edition of ‘All Hands’, the Australian National Maritime Museum ...

Occasional Paper 84: Operation Musketeer – the 1956 Suez Crisis, RAN Members’ Involvement

A.N. Other · Jul 27, 2020 ·

This paper was written by Society volunteer, Commander Martin Linsley RAN Rtd. Its genesis was a list of the RAN participants in the Suez Crisis compiled by Mike Fogarty a ...

Occasional Paper 83: Current Australian Ship Naval Building Projects

Editorial Staff · Jul 27, 2020 ·

This story, which was first published in the Australian Naval Architect, Volume 24 Number dated 2 May 2020 is reproduced with thanks to the Australian Division of the Royal Institution ...

Letter from Frederick Merrill RAN on the sinking of the S.M.S. Königsberg

David Stratton · Jul 11, 2020 ·

Butcher, 2nd Class Frederick Priest Merrill, R.A.N., H.M.A.S. Pioneer, wrote to his parents in Sheffield with his account of the sinking of the S.M.S. Königsberg in the Rufiji delta, German ...

Kings Cross in World War II

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2020 ·

By Nick Hordern In 2020 we celebrate the 75th anniversary year of the opening of the Captain Cook Dock which joined Garden Island to the mainland and we gained a ...

Occasional Paper 82: The Kerr ‘Sydney-Emden’ Medal

Editorial Staff · Jun 27, 2020 ·

This paper, was first published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia in the March 2013 edition of the Naval Historical Review. On 9 November 1914 the RAN cruiser HMAS ...

Occasional Paper 81: Recognition for Scrap Iron Flotilla

Editorial Staff · Jun 24, 2020 ·

The Society was recently gifted a package of assorted papers and photographs collected by the late Petty officer Arthur James Collins. Collins was called up in January 1938 and served ...

Occasional Paper 80: The Early Years (1970-1971) of HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41)

A.N. Other · Jun 24, 2020 ·

The following paper was delivered by Captain Ralph T Derbidge MBE RAN (Retired) at a reunion (mostly of commissioning crew members and those who deployed to the Vietnam War in ...

Occasional Paper 79: The Loss of HMAT Ballarat

Editorial Staff · Jun 24, 2020 ·

The following are personal accounts by soldiers embarked in the transport ship HMAT Ballarat on 25 April 1917. Both stories were published on Thursday 19 July 1917 in the Bendigonian ...

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 ...

The Navy and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Swinden, Greg · Jun 8, 2020 ·

The world is currently combatting the Coronavirus 19 (COVID 19) which originated in China and has now spread throughout the globe. So far, Australia has fortunately been spared the worst ...

Finding of Akagi and Kaga focuses attention on Japan’s formidable aircraft carriers
and the Darwin raid

Lewis, Tom, AOM, Lieutenant RAN · May 27, 2020 ·

By Tom Lewis Dr. Tom Lewis OAM is a retired naval officer, and the author of 14 books. Some of this text was drawn from Carrier Attack, published in 2013 ...

Australian Naval History on 26 May 2020

On This Day · May 26, 2020 ·

The Almirante Lattore FFG14 (ex HMAS Melbourne) and the Capitan Prat FFG11 (ex HMAS Newcastle) depart from Sydney for Chile escorted out of the heads by HMAS Sydney ...

Occasional Paper 78: Two Proud Ships: HMAS Brisbane (I) and HMAS Brisbane (II)

Editorial Staff · May 21, 2020 ·

The following is an address given by Captain Ralph T. Derbidge MBE RAN (Retired) on Monday 19 October 2015 at the Australian War Memorial.  The occasion was the dedication of ...

Australian Naval History on 19 May 2020

On This Day · May 19, 2020 ·

HMAS Sydney V was commissioned off the coast of NSW, in the first commissioning of an Australian warship at sea since the Second World War. ...

Australian Naval History on 14 May 2020

On This Day · May 14, 2020 ·

The Royal Australian Naval College at HMAS Creswell graduated the largest officer cohort in its 107-year history, with 168 members of New Entry Officers’ Course (NEOC) 62 completing their initial ...

The Royal Australian Navy in World War One

David Michael · Apr 22, 2020 ·

The following note was provided by Captain Sean Andrews, RAN Director of the Sea Power Centre -Australia.  Thanks also for the link to a short film made by the Sea ...

Australian Naval History on 15 April 2020

On This Day · Apr 15, 2020 ·

Australia officially transferred ex HMA ships Melbourne and Newcastle to the Chilean Navy during a commissioning ceremony at HMAS Watson Naval Base in Sydney. The two frigates were retired from service ...

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