An Inspirational Beginning Under a humanitarian aid initiative known as Joint Logistics Over The Shore (JLOTS), on Friday 17 May 2024 trucks began delivering shipments of humanitarian aid of food ...
Gaza Trident Pier – Start and Finish
After two centuries Matthew Flinders finally returns home
By Walter Burroughs The June 2019 edition of this magazine contained an article on Matthew Flinders which summarised the great mariner’s life and revealed that his long-lost coffin was rediscovered ...
United States Naval Submarine School Groton
By Lauren Belknap Recently a group of Australian officers and sailors has undertaken training at the United States Naval Submarine School at Groton. Keeping us up to date with these ...
Occasional Paper 186: Cyclone Tracy and the sinking of HMAS Arrow – 50 years on
It’s 50 years this Christmas since Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin, killing 66 people and destroying 90% of the city’s houses. In this extract from his new book Cyclone Warriors – ...
Australian Naval History on 29 August 2024
HMAS Broome II was decommissioned at Darwin ...
Australian Naval History on 8 August 2024
HMAS Melville decommissioned at Cairns ...
Australian Naval History on 1 August 2024
The Evolved Cape class patrol boat ADV Cape Solander was officially accepted by the RAN ...
Australian Naval History on 11 July 2024
Following their completion of the Officers Nuclear Operator Course and Engineering Administration Course Lieutenant Commander James, Lieutenant Stephen and Lieutenant Isabella were the first Australian Navy officers assigned to UK ...
Book Review: Salt Horse
Salt Horse – Memoir of a Maverick Admiral, Claude Lionel Cumberlege. Published by Whittles Publishing Ltd, Dunbeath, Caithness KW6 6EG, Scotland. Admiral Claude Cumberlege RN wrote his memoirs in 1936-38, ...
Letter: HMS Hood
I have just received my ever welcome and informative copy of the Review. The article by Graeme Lunn, detailing HMS Hood’s cruise to Australia, reminded me of my father’s visit ...
The Naval Graves Project
By Kingsley Perry In the December 2023 edition of this journal there was an article titled Rookwood. It described the location and extent of this large cemetery in Sydney and ...
100 Years ago: HMAS Australia and Gerald Muddyman
Observing that 15 April marks the centenary of the intentional sinking of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, the following article taken from the Newington Magazine website, carefully curated by Robert Curran, ...
First NAAFI Store on board RFA Ship opens
This small article from the UK Forces Network is of some interest to us as there were originally four Bay-class RFA landing ship docks. One of these was RFA Largs ...
LCDR Walter Brooksbank MM RANVR at the Admiralty
The December 2023 issue of this magazine introduced LCDR Walter Brooksbank RANVR and the start of his involvement with Naval Intelligence. His grandson Tim Proust provided this article which continues ...
HMAS Maryborough escapes from Java
An email was received recently from Ian Gotts of St Albans in England about the wartime exploits of his cousin Able Seaman James Gotts who was rescued from HMS Electra, ...
Daniel Solander: a Linnaean disciple on HMS Endeavour
By Emily Osterloff This article, which is available on the Natural History Museum website, is reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum in London as ...
The Blackwoods of Huon Park
By Walter Burroughs In the northern Sydney suburb of Turramurra lies St James’ Church and adjacent is a War Memorial Hall with its honour board containing the names of those ...
The Man with Two Swords
By Murray Davies The Challenge My initial thought was, ‘Well, this should be easy…’ I collect swords and I usually do a fair amount of background research on them when ...
Ada Teresa Burrell – The Mica Queen
Considered by her peers to be the only woman to marry a naval officer for his money We publish many stories about well-known naval personalities concentrating on their illustrious careers ...
Robert Otto Albert, AO RFD RD
By John Jeremy AM This fine tribute was first published in The Navy, April-June 2024, and is reproduced by kind permission of the editor of that publication. On 7 February ...
Patrol Boat Autonomy Trial
Many stories are received of autonomous craft but these are mostly small prototypes, possibly of limited capability in an offshore environment. The trials now being conducted by Austal Australia using ...
Australian Naval History on 30 May 2024
HMAS Huon II decommissioned at HMAS Waterhen ...
Australian Naval History on 18 May 2024
HMAS Anzac III decommissioned at Fleet Base West ...
Occasional Paper 185: Fiji Coup 1987 – RAN on the ground
By Commander David Jordan CSC RANR On 14 May 1987 the Military of Fiji took control of the country in a bloodless coup d’état. In response to the coup, the ...
Occasional Paper 184: History of HMA Naval Dockyard, Williamstown.
With the discovery of gold in Victoria in the decade 1851-1861, the population increased sevenfold. The large fleet of vessels that brought these people into the Port of Melbourne overwhelmed ...
