Chris Coulthard-Clark, Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd 157 pages, illustrated. This thoroughly researched account of the first important, sea battle in the South Pacific in World War 2 is ...
Book Review: Action Stations Coral Sea
Book Review: The Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney
Lew Lind, Bellrope Press, 74 pages with illustrations and maps. The Japanese midget submarine attack on ships in Sydney Harbour occurred almost fifty years ago and yet is still a ...
The German Ultra
Operation Fuller-The Channel Dash by the German Fleet-1942
Australian Naval History on 9 March 1991
VADM I.D.G. MacDougall is appointed Chief of Naval Staff. He was the first RAN submariner to reach this position. ...
Australian Naval History on 8 March 1991
VADM M. Hudson was promoted to the rank of Admiral on his retirement as Chief of Naval Staff. At that time, he was the third officer of the RAN to ...
Australian Naval History on 1 March 1991
The keel of the second Collins Class submarine, HMAS FARNCOMB, was laid at Osborne, South Australia. ...
Australian Naval History on 10 February 1991
Sunday, 10 February 1991 marked the 27th anniversary of the loss of HMAS Voyager (II). A large contingent of survivors embarked in Swan at Port Kembla to take passage to ...
Australian Naval History on 26 January 1991
HMAS WESTRALIA, (tanker), entered the operational area of the Arabian Gulf. She served in the area for over 100 days, as part of Operation Damask, and supplied a variety of ...
Australian Naval History on 17 January 1991
During Operation DESERT STORM HMA Ships Sydney and Brisbane formed part of the air defence screen around Battle Force Zulu, in the Arabian Gulf, which included up to three USN ...
Australian Naval History on 16 January 1991
The UN deadline for Iraq to remove it’s troops from Kuwait passed and Operation Desert Storm commenced. Australian ships in the Gulf were part of the force screening the aircraft ...
Australian Naval History on 11 January 1991
HMAS Parramatta was decommissioned. Parramatta was subsequently sold to a Pakistani company and towed from Australia October 1991 to be broken up. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 January 1991
HMAS Westralia II departed HMAS Stirling for the Arabian Gulf, arriving in the Middle East Area of Operations on Australia Day 1991, nine days after the commencement of military action ...
In The Beginning – The Naval Historical Society of Australia
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 1
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 5
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 3
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 4
The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 2
Recollections of founding the Naval Historical Society
Australian Naval History on 12 November 1990
HMA Ships BRISBANE, (guided missile destroyer), and SYDNEY, (guided missile frigate), sailed from Sydney to relieve HMA Ships ADELAIDE and DARWIN, (guided missile frigates), in the multi-national naval force in ...
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1990
The RAN purchased MV BLUE NABILLA from the National Safety Council of Victoria, after its demise. She was later renamed PROTECTOR. ...
Letter – Gallipoli Commemorative Issue
Could I just place in writing my compliments to all associated with the June 1990 – Gallipoli Commemorative Issue – of NHR just received. It makes for damned good reading ...
Boom Defence Vessels
Australian Naval History on 14 September 1990
Third Officer Ruby O. Boye-Jones, BEM, WRANS, the only woman to serve as a coastwatcher in a battle zone in the Pacific in WWII, died at the age of 99 ...