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: War & Operations
Moskva Sinking Analysis
Analysis: Chain of Negligence Caused the Loss of the Cruiser Moskva The shock of the sinking of the Slava-class cruiser Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, continues. […]
Moskva Sinking Photos
First pictures of sinking Russian warship Moskva as survivor describes horrors on board Photos thought to have been taken by a passing Turkish ship show Russia’s flagship Moskva before it […]
A Russian Attack on Odessa Could be Naval Suicide
Russia had a chance to cut off Ukraine from the sea. It blew it. Now it’s highly likely, however and whenever the war ends, that Ukraine still will have access […]
Maritime Forces and Ukraine Crisis
Russian Navy Cruisers Positioned to Counter U.S., French and Italian Carrier Groups in the Mediterranean Slava-class guided-missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov departs Severomorsk. Russian MoD Photo Three Russian guided-missile cruisers have […]
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, […]
ADF Employment – An Essay
Commodore Jim Dickson RAN Ret’d has spent some of his COVID lockdown time considering certain aspects of the ADF’s employment as we move into the uncertain territory of future warfare, […]
Memories of the early days of WW2 By John Philip Stevenson
When the War broke out I was on exchange with the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean as a very lowly Midshipman. We immediately sailed for our war station in Simonstown […]
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 […]