Commander Jim Speed was a Commando on Sword Beach on D-Day 1944. In these podcasts Commander Speed describes his experiences on D-Day. The recordings were made on 25 August 2014 ...
D-Day commando on Sword Beach by Commander Jim Speed DSC, RAN – Part 2
Commander Jim Speed was a Commando on Sword Beach on D-Day 1944. In these podcasts Commander Speed describes his experiences on D-Day. The recordings were made on 25 August 2014 ...
D-Day commando on Sword Beach by Commander Jim Speed DSC, RAN – Part 3
Commander Jim Speed was a Commando on Sword Beach on D-Day 1944. In these podcasts Commander Speed describes his experiences on D-Day. The recordings were made on 25 August 2014 ...
HMAS Diamantina
Lieutenant Commander Maurice G. Rose was the first captain of HMAS Diamantina. The ship was named after the Diamantina River in Queensland, and was a River-class frigate that served the Royal Australian Navy. Diamantina was laid down on 12 ...
Gallipoli and Seapower
The British War Council and many of its advisors were willing to believe that sea power could open the way to Constantinople. It led to the grave underestimation by all ...
A Midshipman’s Journal
Lieutenant Commander WOC Roberts describing some of his early days as seen from a midshipman’s journal. He was called upon at short notice to give an address to the NHSA ...
HMAS Wagga, not Wagga Wagga
Lieutenant Commander WOC Roberts was commanding officer of HMAS Wagga from September 1953 to December 1954, He describes incidents in Wagga’s later career in peace time. HMAS Wagga was one of sixty ...
HMAS Quiberon: a partial history
Lieutenant Commander WOC Roberts talks about his time in HMAS Quiberon. HMAS Quiberon was one of eight Q Class destroyers built for the Royal Navy, and commissioned in to the Royal Australian ...
“As Significant as Trafalgar”: The Battle of the Tsushima Straits. Part 2
Part 2 of Michael Melliar Phelps account of the Battle of Tshushima, and tells the story of the epic voyage of Imperial Russia’s 2nd Pacific Fleet, as it travelled 18,000 ...
“As Significant as Trafalgar”: The Battle of the Tsushima Straits. Part 1
Part 1 of Michael Melliar Phelps account of the 1905 Battle of Tshushima, and the events that led up to the battle. The Battle of Tsushima was a major naval battle fought between Russia ...