In 1866, the Government of Victoria requested a ship from the British Admiralty to bolster the Colony’s defences. At this time, in England, a new type of ship designed for ...
Colonial navies
No. 191 – the Tasmanian Torpedo Boat
Formation of the Royal New Zealand Navy
NZS Amokura – New Zealand’s First Training Ship
Success & Failure – The Story of the Torpedo Gunboat
New South Wales Naval Forces in 1901
WITH THE BASING of the Australian Squadron of the Royal Navy in Sydney, the State of New South Wales saw little need to raise a large naval force and turned ...
The Story of HMCS Protector
New South Wales Naval Forces
This article appeared in The Navy and Army Illustrated dated 15th October 1897. The New South Wales Naval Brigade was the least developed of the Colonial Navies for the obvious ...
Origins of the QUEENSLAND Navy
Old Thunder and Lightning – the Origins of the Queensland Navy IT WAS A RUSSIAN SCARE in the eighteen seventies that caused the Queensland Government of the day to form ...
Australian Naval History on 13 May 1884
HMQS GAYUNDAH, (gunboat), was launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ...