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 […]

The Kursk disaster Book review by John Ellis Moore, R.  A time to die: The Kursk disaster. Transworld Publishers Ltd.: London, 2002. 271 pp. $32.95. When you are in need […]