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HMAS Brisbane I

HMAS Pioneer – The RAN’s First Cruiser

A.N. Other · Dec 31, 1982 ·

IN A PREVIOUS ISSUE of the Naval Historical Review we gave a short resume of the career of the 3rd class protected cruiser Pioneer in the Royal Navy. Let us ...

Coal Ship — A Memory

Stevens, Cliff · Mar 5, 1982 ·

COALING SHIP is now a thing of the past, a forgotten evolution, but fifty years ago it was a much too frequent task. In this story, Cliff Stevens recalls the ...

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First of the Line – HMAS Albatross, first aircraft carrier

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Oct 31, 1977 ·

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 ...

This Man Howden – Captain Harry L. Howden, CBE, RAN

Scrivner, R. · Dec 31, 1974 ·

No member of the Royal Australian Navy who served in wartime could show as much appreciation of their captain as did the crew, officers and ratings of the three Amphion ...

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Australian Naval Aviation – Part 2

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Dec 31, 1973 ·

In this second part of Australian Naval Aviation, Group Captain Isaacs discusses two of the aircraft employed by Australian ships in World War I – the Sopwith Baby Seaplane and ...

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Australian Naval Aviation – Part 1

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Dec 31, 1972 ·

THE HISTORY OF WORLD naval aviation began, tentatively, in the lighter-than-air era. As far back as November 1861, during the American Civil War, the Union Army – employing maritime techniques – released the Washington balloon from a remodelled coal barge, the G.W. Parke Curtis, to observe the enemy at Budd’s Ferry. ...

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Australian Naval History on 1 August 1940

On This Day · Aug 1, 1940 ·

HMAS BATHURST, (minesweeper), the first of 60 of the class to be built in Australia, was launched at Cockatoo Island, Sydney. The RAN Depot at Fremantle was commissioned as HMAS ...

Australian Naval History on 24 September 1935

On This Day · Sep 24, 1935 ·

The modified Leander class cruiser HMAS SYDNEY, (CAPT J. U. C. Fitzgerald, RN), was commissioned at Portsmouth . SYDNEY was laid down in Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Yard, Wallsend-on-Tyne, ...

Australian Naval History on 16 July 1935

On This Day · Jul 16, 1935 ·

HMA Ships AUSTRALIA and BRISBANE, (cruisers), represented the RAN at the Jubilee Review of HRH King George V, at Spithead, England. ...

Australian Naval History on 13 June 1935

On This Day · Jun 13, 1935 ·

HMAS BRISBANE, (cruiser), was ordered to assist HMS HASTINGS, (sloop), which ran aground on Shab Kutle Reef in the Red Sea. The cruiser stood by the stranded ship for a ...

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