THE PEACETIME ACTIVITIES of the Royal Navy have on innumerable occasions included help to those in distress, and right down through the years when great calamities have overtaken peoples of ...
The Navy and the Napier Earthquake – New Zealand, 1931
The Destruction of Force K – Mediterranean 1941
HMS Renown – Battle-cruiser 1916 – 1948
Escape From Gumusluck (Turkey, 1943)
Australian Naval History on 4 May 1979
RAN Clearance Divers blasted a new harbour and shipping channel out of a coral reef at Noro, Solomon Islands. This was done to allow local fishermen better access to the ...
Australian Naval History on 1 May 1979
The initial engagement period for General Entry Sailors was reduced from nine to six years. ...
Australian Naval History on 21 April 1979
VADM Sir James Willis, KBE, AO, RAN, is appointed Chief of Naval Staff. ...
Australian Naval History on 12 April 1979
RADM D. Leach, CBE, MVO, was appointed Flag Officer Commanding Her Majesty’s Australian Fleet. ...
Australian Naval History on 9 March 1979
The Minister for Defence, Mr. D. J. Killen, officially opened the new guided missile frigate berth at Garden Island, Sydney. ...
The Cruise of the Speedy – c1840
A Submarine Episode during the Indian-Pakistan War of 1971
Admiral Sir Victor Smith, AC, KBE, CB, DSC
British Monitors East of Malta
The Chindwin Flotilla 1945
THE DISASTROUS RETREAT of the British forces in Burma, their incredible heroism during the siege of Imphal and the eventual southward advance through the worst fighting terrain in the world ...
Australian Naval History on 15 January 1979
The RAN Staff College was officially opened at HMAS PENGUIN, Sydney, under the command of CAPT N. Ralph, AM, DSC, RAN. Prior to this all RAN officers undergoing staff training ...
Australian Naval History on 5 January 1979
HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), was dispatched on a 3000 nautical mile mercy dash to Heard Island to evacuate a seriously ill biologist. ...
Genesis of the Australia
THAT THE FIRST AUSTRALIA of the RAN was a Dreadnought battle cruiser was largely due to a combination of accidents, rather than any coherent policy on the part of Great ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp – Antarctic Research 1947-1948
SPACE WILL NOT ALLOW ME to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp ...
HMAS Wyatt Earp and the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1947-1948
Space will not allow me to dwell significantly on the history of Antarctic exploration, nor the reasons which led to this voyage. The reason, primarily, for the Wyatt Earp mission, ...
The Torpedoing of HMAS Hobart 1942
Quiberon and a Deep U-boat – 1942
Japanese Battle-cruiser Kongo
Australian Naval History on 1 December 1978
HMAS CANBERRA, (guided missile frigate), was launched at Seattle, USA. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 October 1978
Female Officers of the WRANS were granted equal pay with their male counterparts. ...
