Its Influence on Battle Outcomes In Nelson’s Day We tend to believe that the long distance voyages in the days of sail were riddled with death and disease, notably scurvy, ...
The Health of the Navy
Admirable Ancestors
Organisation of Coastwatching in the New Guinea WW 2
Obituary: Jenny of ‘Jenny’s Side Party’, Hong Kong
Mrs Ng Muk Kah, BEM Generations of sailors who visited Hong Kong will mourn the death of Jenny. She was a much loved living legend who, for all the colony’s ...
The Boatswain, the Mate, and the Kickings
Tales from the Dockyard: The Silver Docket
The Long Journey Home – Unknown HMAS Sydney Sailor
We Regret to Inform You . . . .
The Melbourne/Voyager Collision – Untold Story
Tales from the Dockyard: Dan Craig’s Medal
Tales from the Dockyard: ‘Ingenuity Rules’
Lest it be thought that there was no humour in HM Naval Yard, Garden Island, during G.H. Bromwich’s long term in office, the following account by an apprentice boilermaker of ...
Australian Naval History on 9 June 2009
HMAS Toowoomba II departed for the Middle East region. Toowoomba’s deployment was the Navy’s 45th individual ship deployment to the Middle East region since 1990 ...
Australian Naval History on 17 May 2009
Whilst transiting the ‘Internationally Recognised Transit Corridor’ in the Gulf of Aden, HMA Ships Sydney IV and Ballarat II came to the assistance of a merchant vessel, MV Dubai Princess, ...
Book Review: Treachery
Treachery by Julian Stockwin. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. rrp $32.99 Reviewed by Barry Nobes Treachery is ninth in a series of Napoleonic War naval stories by Julian Stockwin, ...
General Knowledge Question
Which ship of the RAN wore the flag of an Admiral of the Fleet longer than any other? Answer Though her commission in the RAN was very brief, HMAS Suva ...
The Story of a Hundred Gallon Barrel
Green and Gold Malaria
The day would soon arrive when I could not ignore the rash. I was obviously ill and so I called on Doctor Nash. This standard consultation would adjudicate my fate. ...
Leadership: Admiral Raymond Spruance, USN
Letters – Cannon Balls and Brass Monkeys
Oh, dear. Not that old saw again! (Cannon Balls – Dispelling a Myth, The Review, December, 2008.) It’s an amusing yarn but there’s not a word of truth in it. The ...
Letters – Brass Monkeys
UK Defence Bullying Report – RAF Worst of the Three Services
A recent report by the Equal Opportunities Audit Team has found that allegations of ‘a culture of widespread bullying and brutality’ within the British Forces are, in the most part, ...
The Angels Came in Ships
The Quetta Story
Taken from ‘The Quetta. – Queensland’s Worst Disaster’ At 6am on 18 February 1890 RMS Quetta left Parbury Wharf, Brisbane for what should have been just another voyage back to ...
Book Review: A Century of Carrier Aviation
A Century of Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of Ships and Shipborne Aircraft. By David Hobbs. Seaforth Publishing (2009). ISBN 978-1-84832-019-2. Reviewed by Commodore (P) John Da Costa RAN (Rtd) This large ...
What Ship Was That?
At the time of writing, John Smith was Vice President of the Naval Historical Society of Australia. Most of the members of the Naval Historical Society of Australia would presume ...