ALTHOUGH HER DAYS WERE NUMBERED, the shock announcement on July 20th ‘The transport HMAS Sydney is to be paid off. She will be withdrawn from the Australian Fleet and will ...
The Great Sea Battles of History 480 B.C.-1945
SalamisB.C. 480 Mycale479 Mylae260 Mount Ecnome256 Drepanum (Trapani)249 Egadian lslands241 Syracuse212 Coryce191 Myonnese190 Lemnos73 Nauloque35 Actium31 SinnigalliaA.D.551 Bravalla735 Paris885 BeirutJune7, 1191 ConstantinopleJuly 17, 1203 ConstantinopleApril 22, 1204 DammeMay 31, 1213 ...
British and German submarine statistics of World War II
THE GERMAN NAVY commenced World War II with fifty-six submarines, of which only twenty four were suitable for operations in the Atlantic. In the five and a half years of ...
Twins Were Pioneers of the RAN
An announcement that two brothers had been appointed to command sister ships in Australia’s Destroyer Squadron has brought to light the careers of twin brothers who were pioneers of the ...
Tokyo Bay – 2nd September 1945
The signing of the surrender document on Tokyo Harbour on 2nd September, 1945, ended World War II. These two photographs depict the scene on that memorable day. Representatives of all ...
Australia Station ships – HMS Torch and HMS Sealark
HMS Torch joined the Australian Station in February 1897 Originally the Consuelo, HMS Sealark joined the Australia Station in 1910 ...
The Maxim was the Maximum
THE MAXIM GUN was adopted by the Royal Navy in the 1880s. It was used with good effect in the Benin Campaign (modern Biafra) in 1896. The two seamen of ...
HMS Chatham – New Zealand’s First Cruiser
HMAS Parramatta – the RAN’s First Fighting Ship
HMAS PARRAMATTA, the first fighting ship of the Royal Australian Navy. PARRAMATTA now [Ed. August 1972] rusts on the mud flats above Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River but in the next ...
HMAS Sydney in the North Sea
The four photographs in this series are from the collection of Rear Admiral G. B. Moore, C.B.E. HMAS SYDNEY operated in the North Sea in the last years of World ...