IT IS A PLEASURE to present a pictorial profile of a ship that served the Royal Australian Navy in comparative obscurity. HMAS Bingera, according to the official histories, never fired ...
HMAS Canberra I
The Ketty Brovig and Coburg Sinking 1941
HMAS Canberra’s 1935 cruise
Showing the Flag Around Australia By Civilian Observer This account of HMAS Canberra’s 1935 cruise was printed in the Sun & Guardian dated 8 December, 1935. The cruise was made ...
Bastock, John – Naval Artist & Writer
HMAS Shropshire
THIS IS THE STORY of a well known ship, seen through the eyes of a retired captain who commissioned the ship as a cadet in 1929. In 1927 the Admiralty ...
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 ...
Captain A.S. Rosenthal DSO and Bar, OBE, RAN
This Man Howden – Captain Harry L. Howden, CBE, RAN
Canberra’s fate
It was 1.45 in the morning, Serene and quiet the sea; The Canberra had steamed into Tulagi, With Guadalcanal on the lee. The Aussie patrol was with us With Yankee ...