Submarine aircraft carriers by Fred Lane There has been a recent upsurge in interest, mainly on the internet and in journal articles, about submarine aircraft carriers. Most of these involve […]

USS Tiru and HMAS Vendetta by Pat Burnett and Sam Sakker. Footnote by Tom De Voil On the night of  Thursday 3 November, 1966 the US Submarine Tiru, on passage […]

Torpedo pistols Torpedoes have come a long way since the Ottoman submerged submarine Abdülhamid first fired a torpedo in 1886 and Russian torpedo boats sank the Turkish steamer Intibah on […]

Fluckey and the Barb RADM Eugene B. Fluckey USN, the most highly decorated American serviceman then living, died on 28 June 2007, aged 93, of Alzheimer’s disease complications. He won […]

Submarine rescue: The Australian experience In the last 100 years, more than 200 submarines have been lost by accident or error, usually with a large loss of life. Seven submarines […]

Australians in midget submarines by Ray Worledge Japan’s midget submarines proved a failure during the otherwise successful attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. They also failed in Sydney Harbour […]

The mystery boats by Geoffrey BarkerReprinted with permission from the Australian Financial Review Magazine, December 2003 pp.17-21. It’s the great untold story of Australian naval history. Throughout the last decade […]

HMS Sportsman Reports by Captain (S), First Submarine Flotilla to Flag Officer Levant and Eastern Mediterranean Forwarded by Stephen Dearnley, a “very junior Sportsman fourth hand” at that time. HMS […]

The Collins class It was disappointing to see negative publicity from Canberra, especially around 1999-2000 about our new submarines and other RAN ships, such as “rust bucket Manoora“. Certainly there […]

The ONS-5 Convoy and U-boat battle By Mike Downes Paper presented to the Company of Master Mariners, Sydney Branch, 24 November 1993, reprinted with permission. The chief ONS-5 adversary was […]