Royal Navy ship trains with Australian patrol vessels
Photo: Royal Navy HMS Spey, a River class offshore patrol vessel, has departed to Australia, taking on supplies and fuel for the next leg of her Pacific patrol. The Royal […]
Category: Ships
HMS Lancaster sails for three years forward-deployed in the Gulf
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 […]
Royal Navy Anti-Surface Missile Challenges
Lima Charlie: What is the future of the Royal Navy’s anti-ship capabilities? Will the loss of Russia’s flagship Moskva alter how the UK equips its ships for naval combat? HMS […]
RAN Joint Support Ships
During INDO PACIFIC 2022 several contenders emerged for the Royal Australian Navy’s requirement for new Joint Support Ships (JSS). Under project SEA2200, Australia will domestically build two multipurpose auxiliary vessels, […]
Hunter Class Concerns
In 2009, Australia’s government decided that it would replace eight Anzac-class frigates with nine ships optimised for antisubmarine warfare (ASW). There was no justification in the Royal Australian Navy capstone […]
Hunter Class Concerns
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 […]
THE FACE OF NAVAL BATTLE: THE CORAL SEA
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 […]
HMAS Canberra and HMAS Shropshire “ Never Say Die “ Address at Canberra Memorial – Lake Burley Griffin 7 August 2016
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 […]
The 1965 HMAS Yarra Mysterious Diver Incident
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’, […]
VISIT TO HMAS SHEEAN – 25 Feb 03 – GARDEN ISLAND
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 […]