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 ...
HMAS Brisbane I
Coal Ship — A Memory
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 ...
This Man Howden – Captain Harry L. Howden, CBE, RAN
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 2
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 1
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. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 August 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
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
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
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 ...