Introduction On a spring afternoon in Brisbane in October 1888, twenty armed policemen, under the command of the Commissioner of Police, marched down Edward Street and deployed to take up ...
Australian Auxiliary Squadron
Factors Leading to the Development of the RAN
Success & Failure – The Story of the Torpedo Gunboat
New South Wales Naval Forces in 1901
WITH THE BASING of the Australian Squadron of the Royal Navy in Sydney, the State of New South Wales saw little need to raise a large naval force and turned ...