The Australian Government announced that HMS INVINCIBLE, (aircraft carrier), would be renamed HMAS AUSTRALIA when she joined the RAN. As a result of the Falkland’s War the British Government decided to retain ...
HMAS Australia II
Occasional Paper 170: The Eight Inch Gun Relining Programme
June 1982 edition of the Naval Historical Review (all rights reserved) When the Second World War broke out the RAN possessed two 10,000 ton County class cruisers armed with BL ...
Australian Naval History on 25 February 1982
The Australian Government announced it intended to purchase the aircraft carrier HMS INVINCIBLE as a replacement for HMAS MELBOURNE. The carrier was to be renamed HMAS AUSTRALIA. However, as a ...
I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 2)
The Cruise Of HMAS Australia -1934-36
First of the Line – HMAS Albatross, first aircraft carrier
WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER1 emerged from the 1914-18 war as a major weapon of war, it was inevitable that the Royal Australian Navy – with the largest island continent in ...
Alan Payne – Naval Constructor Supreme
Captain A.S. Rosenthal DSO and Bar, OBE, RAN
HMAS Bendigo – New Guinea 1942
The Pusser’s Bus
The Seagull V amphibian or Walrus or Pusser’s Bus was the best known aircraft of the Royal Australian Navy in World War Two. Carried by all cruisers this ubiquitous aircraft ...