Category: News Archive

24 March, 2023 By Rick BAYLEY News, Vale No Comments

Captain Murray Tobias AM, RFD, QC

Eulogy by RADM The Hon. Justice M.J. Slattery RAN on behalf of Chief of Navy 16 March 2023 There is another chapter to Murray’s story, for he was a member […]

27 May, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY News, Vale No Comments

Vale – Rear Admiral Geoffrey Bayliss AM

Rear Admiral Geoffrey James Alexander Bayliss, AM, RAN Rtd RADM Geoffrey Bayliss was born in 1937 in the remote highlands of Burma and attended Brisbane Boys College. Following National Service […]

11 March, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY Vale No Comments

One of Our Best CDs

This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10 March 2022. It is a reminder of the selfless service that so many have given to the RAN and their […]

12 February, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY News Archive, Ships No Comments

Dutton and Chief of the Navy Respond to Fears Around Hunter Class Publication of a leaked engineering report criticising the anticipated performance of the RAN’s future Hunter-class frigates has drawn […]

12 February, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY News Archive, Submarines No Comments

India and Pakistan Tit for Tat

France and China Fuelling India and Pakistan Submarine Race South Asian rivals are cranking up competing submarine development programs with duelling strategic partners. In an apparent underwater warfare tit-for-tat, India […]

12 February, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY News Archive, Submarines No Comments

NATO Submarine Rescue Exercise

JFD Successfully Completes NATO Submarine Rescue System Golden Arrow Exercise 2021 JFD successfully completed a comprehensive submarine rescue exercise to mobilise the NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS). The exercise, titled […]

12 February, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY International, News Archive No Comments

China Aid for Tonga

Upon the request from Tonga, the Chinese military has sent two naval vessels to the country with China’s second batch of disaster-relief supplies in the aftermath of a volcano eruption, […]

26 January, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY News Archive, Submarines No Comments

Third Indian SSBN Commissioned

As per report by the UK based Janes Defence Weekly on December 29, 2021, India on November 23, 2021 quietly launched its third SSBN (Nuclear Missile Submarine) at the secretive […]

23 January, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY News Archive, Submarines No Comments

Israeli Submarine Developments

Israel Has Ordered Three New Dakar-Class Submarines from TKMS thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has reached an agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence on the framework conditions for the purchase […]

20 January, 2022 By Rick BAYLEY News, News Archive, War & Operations No Comments

Virtual Dive on the Wreck of I-124

NOC Member Tom Lewis was the advisory historian for the project which simulated a virtual dive on the wreck of I-124, a WWII Japanese submarine, sunk 80 years ago today, […]

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