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

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 ...

Occasional Paper 10: The Loss of HMAS Kuttabul

A.N. Other · Jul 18, 2017 ·

The following address was delivered Captain Christopher Skinner RAN Rtd during the 75th anniversary ceremony conducted by HMAS Kuttabul on Garden Island, Sydney 1 June 2017. Good morning to you ...

Occasional Paper 9: The Sinking of HMAS Armidale on 1 December 1942

A.N. Other · Jul 1, 2017 ·

July 2017 The following address was delivered by Dr Kevin Smith OAM to members of the Naval Historical Society of Australia in Sydney 18 April 2017. In 1798 at the ...

Occasional Paper 11: The Remarkable Short Life of HMAS Nestor, The Ship That Never Came Home

A.N. Other · Jul 1, 2017 ·

July 2017 The following address was delivered Commander Walter Burroughs RAN Rtd during the 75th anniversary ceremony conducted by the RAN on Garden Island, Sydney 16 June 2017. I am ...

Letter: Who Took the Flag – QC Owns Up

Letter Writer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

I read with interest Fifty Years under the Australian White Ensign by Norman Rivett (Naval Historical Review Vol 38 No 1 March 2017). I have a story of my own to ...

Letter: Climate Change

Letter Writer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

After some lengthy exchanges John Wells seeks one last word: I wish to thank the Editor for giving me the opportunity for ‘right of reply’ to David F. Flakelar’s rebuttal ...

Book Review: HMAS Sydney II in Peace and War

Book reviewer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Wes Olson, Privately Published at Hilton, WA in 2016, 610 Pages with maps and photographs. Available direct from the author at email: wes.dale@westnet.com.au. Price $60.00 plus postage. Aside from ...

Book Review: HMAS Canberra – Casualty of Circumstance

Book reviewer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Kathryn Spurling, Publishers New Holland, Sydney, 2016. Paperback, 255 pp with b & w illustrations, maps and portraits. Available most bookshops from $33.00 with discounts available. The author served ...

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, ...

Secret Devices used to defeat Napoleon Bonaparte

A.N. Other · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Mick Graham-Smith In February 2016 this paper was presented to the Western Australian Chapter of the Naval Historical Society. They considered it of such merit that it should be ...

Antarctica – the forgotten continent

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2017 ·

This article has been compiled from research conducted by Hugh Farmer, one of our new members providing invaluable volunteer assistance at the Boathouse. Antarctica occupies about 14,000,000 km2of mainly mysterious ...

The ‘Battle’ of May Island

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2017 ·

By Laurie Watson In the many memorial services to commemorate the centenary of World War I events, that commemorating the Battle of May Island is very likely to pass under ...

The Ship that Started the Second World War

A.N. Other · Jun 29, 2017 ·

By Walter Burroughs In September 2016 the author was a passenger on a cruise ship which berthed at the Baltic port of Gdansk in almost the same position as a ...

The Gospel of St John and LCDR Donald Mckenzie RAN

Editorial Staff · Jun 29, 2017 ·

Recently one of our members and cherished chaplains, the Reverend Dr Gareth Clayton, presented the Society with a copy of the Gospel of St John which had been given into ...

HMAS Patricia Cam

Editorial Staff · Jun 29, 2017 ·

Graeme Andrews, one of our long serving members with a sharp wit and fine pen, wrote an excellent article Cam’s Trawlers first published in the May 2006 edition of Afloat magazine. After ...

Docking the ex-HMAS Sydney

Webmaster · Jun 29, 2017 ·

On 12th June 2017, Ex-HMAS Sydney was docked at the Western Australian Government owned Australian Marine Complex Common User Facility in Henderson Western Australia by AMC Management, the Facility Manager ...

Harbour Defence Motor Launches, Seaward Defence Motor Launches & Seaward Defence Boats

Editorial Staff · Jun 29, 2017 ·

Wooden Ships and Iron Men – unofficial motto of RAN HDMLs1 The March 2017 edition of this magazine contained an article HDML 1321 and what she represents which states that after ...

Commander Frederick Campbell Darley 1886 – 1926

Swinden, Greg · Jun 28, 2017 ·

Frederick Campbell Darley was born at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, NSW on 12 February 1886, the eldest child of Cecil West Darley (Public Works Engineer) and Constance Leila Annette Darley (nee ...

Australian Naval History on 6 June 2017

On This Day · Jun 6, 2017 ·

The ADV Cape Inscription was commissioned at Fleet Base West. The two Cape-class patrol boats for the navy were built by Austal under a AU$63 million project and leased for ...

Occasional Paper 8: The Gustavo Stefanini Story

A.N. Other · Jun 1, 2017 ·

June 2017 The following story was provided by Commander Stephen Youll, OAM RAN Retd in relation to the matter of the first RAN ship to sink a submarine in World ...

Australian Naval History on 29 May 2017

On This Day · May 29, 2017 ·

After almost two years of operations with the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Defence Vessel Cape Byron was returned to the original owner, Australian Border Force. Since July 2015, Cape Byron ...

Australian Naval History on 1 May 2017

On This Day · May 1, 2017 ·

The ADV Cape Fourcroy was commissioned at Fleet Base West. The two Cape-class patrol boats for the navy were built by Austal under a AU$63 million project and leased for ...

Occasional Paper 7: HMAS Vampire Memorial Address (9 April 2017)

Alexandra Murtazaeva · May 1, 2017 ·

May 2017 On 9 April 1942, HMAS Vampire (I) was sunk by Japanese bombers in the vicinity of Batticaloa, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with the loss of eight lives.  This action was ...

Book review: Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan

Book reviewer · Mar 29, 2017 ·

By Mike Carlton. Penguin Random House, Sydney, August 2016. Hardcover 642 pages with illustrations and many b&w photographs. RRP $50 – discounts available. Some naval history books traverse well-worn tracks ...

Unpicking the Goldsworthy Myths

A.N. Other · Mar 29, 2017 ·

By Hector Donohue When Lieutenant Commander Leon Goldsworthy GC, DSC, GM, MID died in 1994, the New York Times published an obituary which included the following: Lieut. Comdr. Leon Goldsworthy, a ...

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