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Occasional Paper 18: Ensigns Associated With Ships Based at Garden Island

Occasional Paper 18: Ensigns Associated With Ships Based at Garden Island

Rivett, Norman C · Nov 1, 2017 ·

November 2017 Flags have a long been a fascination of founding Society member Mr Norman Rivett as well as Garden Island in Sydney where he has worked and volunteered for ...

Panama Canal

Webmaster · Oct 31, 2017 ·

The Panama Canal allows ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, saving them a long journey around the tip of South America. This video addresses the construction of ...

Hammerhead Crane, Garden Island Naval Dockyard, Sydney

Webmaster · Oct 31, 2017 ·

This presentation by Mr Rick Mitchell was provided to RAHS members at History House on 31 July 2014 ...

Occasional Paper 16: HMAS Australia and Atlantic rescue of Coastal Command Sunderland – 1940

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Oct 1, 2017 ·

October 2017 On Monday 28th October 1940, I was serving as an eighteen year old Midshipman in HMAS “Australia”, an 8 inch gun cruiser. At that time, we had arrived on ...

Occasional Paper 17: Fleet arrival in Sydney – 4 October 1913

A.N. Other · Oct 1, 2017 ·

October 2017 At an Imperial Conference held in 1909, it was decided to deploy to Australian waters a naval unit consisting of at least a battle cruiser, three second class ...

Australian Naval History on 23 September 2017

On This Day · Sep 23, 2017 ·

HMAS Hobart III, lead ship of the Hobart Class Airwarfare Destroyers, commissioned ...

Letter: More on “Who Took the Flag?”

Letter Writer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

Dear Editor I refer to David Quick’s letter ‘Who Took the Flag’ in the June 2017 edition of the NHR. A quick look at the RoPs of HMAS Supply tells us ...

Letter: Some Additional Aspects to the RAN’s Antarctic Involvement

Letter Writer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

Dear Editor, Further to Hugh Farmer’s article Antarctica –the forgotten Continent in the Naval Historical Review Vol. 38 No. 2 (June 2017), there are two aspects of RAN participation in ...

Book review: Under the Water Under the Wire and the men who sank the Sydney

Book reviewer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Grahame Wilson. Self-published via Publicious P/L in 2015. Paperback, 281 pages with b&w illustrations. Available from Amazon and Booktopia and selected booksellers from $30. EBook version is also available ...

Book review: The Flag’s Up

Book reviewer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Peter Poland. Published by Halstead Press, Sydney in 2017. Soft cover of 176 pages with plentiful supply of black & white and colour photographs. Available from booksellers and online ...

Book Review: Aus-Ships 2017 (CD)

Book reviewer · Sep 5, 2017 ·

Somewhat unusually we have been asked to review a CD. Aus-Ships 2017 by Tony Starke, revised by Rex Cox and Robert Fildes. This is the fourth and greatly improved edition ...

Outsourcing in the Australian Defence Forces

Editorial Staff · Sep 5, 2017 ·

Sooner or later, everything old is new again From The Colorado Kid by Stephen King   Outsourcing Outsourcing is a practice used to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to ...

Dubbo born Olympian in command of His Majesty’s Australian Squadron – Robert Dalglish

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Captain John McGrath, Royal Navy  This fascinating article received from a Royal Naval colleague covers an often overlooked period of our naval history leading up to the Great Depression. ...

The Sailors of Fromelles

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Commander Tony Vine, RANR In the eyes of the Australian public the Royal Australian Navy’s role in the Great War is generally limited to the capture of New Guinea, ...

The Spectacle Island Railway

Haynes, Fred · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Fred Haynes Spectacle Island is located near the suburb of Drummoyne at the confluence of Iron Cove and Parramatta rivers. It was originally named Dawes Island when surveyed in ...

A Communications Mystery

Editorial Staff · Sep 5, 2017 ·

Of what avail the loaded tube, The cannon or the shell; If flags or W/T default The Fleet will go to hell. WWI – author unknown   A few months ...

Australian – Indian Relationship: Part 1

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2017 ·

 This is the first of a three part series covering the Australian-Indian relationship. Australians fought alongside Indian troops in two world wars, but what do we know about them? Both ...

‘Mission to Kerguelen’ – An Australian Military Operation in the Sub-Antarctic islands in 1941

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Rohan Goyne I refer to the excellent article Antarctica the forgotten Continent by Hugh Farmer in the Naval Historical Review Vol. 38 No2 June 2017 and offer the following ...

AK 121 Aroetta

Editorial Staff · Sep 5, 2017 ·

 A previous edition of this magazine (March 2017) outlined the exploits of HDML 1321 and favourably mentioned her commanding officer, Lieutenant Ambrose Palmer, RANR. This article explores an earlier career of ...

HMAS Platypus – a Submarine Naval Base

A.N. Other · Sep 5, 2017 ·

By Peter R. Smith This paper was prepared by the Submarine Institute of Australia to help mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the formation of a submarine base ...

Occasional Paper 15: Battle of Bita Paka 11 September 1914

A.N. Other · Sep 1, 2017 ·

September 2017 The Battle of Bita Paka (11 September 1914) was fought south of Kabakaul, on the island of New Britain, and was a part of the invasion and subsequent ...

Occasional Paper 14: LCDR Mackenzie Jesse Gregory

A.N. Other · Sep 1, 2017 ·

September 2017 LCDR Mackenzie Jesse Gregory RAN Ret, (9/02/1922- 27/08/2014) was to my mind a fine example of the qualities a Naval Officer needed to have. He could communicate well, ...

HMAS Platypus celebrates 50 years

Webmaster · Aug 18, 2017 ·

Watch Channel 7 news coverage of Sydney’s former submarine base 50th anniversary event at Neutral Bay Sydney. ...

Proto Oxygen Breathing Apparatus

Webmaster · Aug 8, 2017 ·

Provided by Alan Walker ‘The Proto breathing apparatus was a 2 hour duration set, and always were operated in pairs so if one got into trouble the other was a ...

Occasional Paper 12: Personal Experiences: Aftermath Of Japanese Submarine Attack: Sydney Harbour

A.N. Other · Aug 1, 2017 ·

August 2017 The following are accounts of individual contributions made by two remarkable people in the aftermath of the Japanese midget submarine attack in Sydney Harbour on 31 May 1942. ...

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