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 […]
Category: Ships
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 […]
Well, well! What have we got here?
(This piece of whimsy was first published in NOCN 85, 1 June 2011, in a shorter version. This presentation contains material omitted from the Newsletter one for reasons of space, […]
THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENED … Swan to Shanghai, 1981: Trials of the heavenly duck.
THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENED … Swan to Shanghai, 1981: Trials of the heavenly duck. By Max Sulman (This article was first published in NOCN 84, 1 March 2011.) […]
HMAS Australia, 1911-1924: the first flagship
HMAS Australia, 1911-1924: the first flagship (This article was first published in NOCN 84, 1 March 2011.) Builders: John Brown & Co, Clydebank Launched: 25 October 1911 Commissioned: 21 […]
This is the Way that it Happened– The unguided missile
THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENED … The unguided missile by Jonathan Brett Young (This article was first published in NOCN83, 1 December 2010.) It was the last opportunity for […]