During the Falklands War in the early 1980s the warring navies of Great Britain and Argentina quickly called upon merchant shipping to pad out their naval capacity. In Great Britain, ...
Commercial trawlers in Two Wars
Supply Chief Petty Officer Louis Nicholas Sampson (1907-1941)
HMAS Nirimba: The importance of embracing and adapting to change
The Great Depression and the Navy
The worldwide Global Financial Crisis which originated in the United States in 2007 and the Australian reaction to it is still fresh in most peoples’ minds. The description of the ...
The British Navy Between the Wars
(A lecture delivered to the naval history course of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy) FAILURE The popular picture of British strategy and the ...
The First Hundred Years
Australasian Naval Forces and Commonwealth Naval Forces
Developing Australian Naval Forces
HMAS Australia at Dakar 1940
To the current generation Australia being at war with France is unthinkable but this account of events during the early days of WW2 shows the role HMAS Australia played in ...
Developing Australian Naval Forces
In celebrating the centenary of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) we should recognise the RAN was born at a most turbulent time in our recent history. The turn of ...
Australian Naval History on 27 May 2011
HMAS Manoora II decommissioned ...
Australian Naval History on 19 May 2011
HMAS Toowoomba II departed Australia for the Middle East region under Operation SLIPPER. HMAS Toowoomba II was Navy’s 50th individual ship deployment to the Middle East region since 1990 ...
Australian Naval History on 5 May 2011
Death of Chief Petty Officer Claude Choules at age 110. Born on 3 March 1901 Choules was at the time of his death was the oldest combat veteran of the ...
Australian Naval History on 13 April 2011
HMAS Adelaide II was scuttled as a dive wreck off Avoca, New South Wales ...
The Three Ships called Anzac
The following tributes to the three ships which have borne the proud name Anzac have been brought together from information held in our archives. It is perhaps the expected problem ...
Book Review: A History of the Naval Chapel, Garden Island
A History of the Naval Chapel, Garden Island Author – Norman C Rivett Reviewed by LCDR Ron Robb, RAN, Rtd. A detailed history of the Naval Chapel on Garden Island ...
The Naval Officer Sydney
They Also Served – Leading Cook Francis Bassett ‘Dick’ Emms
The Tingira Tram
The Queensland Floods and HMAS Diamantina
The River class frigate HMAS Diamantina was one of eight of this large class of over 130 WW II convoy escorts to enter the RAN. She was built by Walkers ...
