HMS Lancaster sails for three years forward-deployed in the Gulf HMS Lancaster has left Portsmouth Naval Base for a three-year deployment to the Gulf. Photo: HMS Lancaster/Twitter HMS Lancaster sailed […]
When the War broke out I was on exchange with the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean as a very lowly Midshipman. We immediately sailed for our war station in Simonstown […]
US Ambassador John Berry lays a wreath commemorating the Battle of the Coral Sea on the bow of museum ship HMAS Vampire. Veterans and members of the Australian and the […]
ANNUAL COMMEMORATION AND LUNCH SYDNEY, 7 MAY 2016 Address by Rear Admiral James Goldrick AO CSC RAN at the Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney We think of the face of […]
By LCDR Desmond Woods, RANR Karl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is the realm of uncertainly. The lived experience of war at sea bears this out. Ships like […]
Frederick Norton Cook joined the Royal Australian Naval College as a Cadet Midshipman in 1919. In 1936 he served as Flag Lieutenant to the Fleet Commander, Rear Admiral WTR Ford CB, onboard HA/L4S […]
By Mike Rossiter Reviewed by Kevin Rickard It was just before dawn in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945 when a bright flash filled the pre-dawn with a […]
byTom de Voil, Nicholson VIC I was MEO of HMAS Duchess in 1972 and we were secured alongside in the Stores Basin in Singapore when it was similarly busy. We […]
By Hector Donohue The following description of a little known incident onboard Yarra during Confrontation is taken from the recently published book ‘United and Undaunted – the First 100 Years’, […]
By Richard Francis Today I managed to score an unexpected conducted tour of one of the RAN’s latest Collins Class submarines, HMAS Sheean, alongside the dedicated submarine berth at West […]
