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Campaign Medals – Maori Wars – 1860-1861
The New Zealand Medal to the Victorian Naval Service 1860/61 There had been fighting between the Maoris, who had first settled in New Zealand c825, and the white settlers, but ...
Sydney – Convict Colony or a ‘normal’ British Colony?
RAN Ships and Their Commanders at the Outbreak of WW2
Commodore in command of Australian Fleet at the outbreak of 1939-45 War: Commodore 2nd Class W.R. Patterson, C.V.O. (R.N.) Commanding Officers, H.M.A. Ships at the outbreak of 1939-45 War: ADELAIDE: ...
ANZAC Class Frigates – Naming Issues
The New Anzac Class Frigates, the first of which will be delivered during 1995, have been named to commemorate previous ships of the Royal Australian Navy, all of which had distinguished ...
Faces of the Past (early 1942)
Top Row (l-r) Captain Esdale, Paymaster Capt. Trivett, Lt Cmdr Lewis, Lt Cmdr Wilkinson, Engineer Capt. Doyle. Middle Row (l-r) Commander Clark, Commander Langford, Commodore Muirhead-Gould, Paymaster Cmdr E. Kinesford-Smith, Stubbs Chaplain Bottom ...
Obituary: Commodore Rodney Rhoades – The man who fed Tobruk
Commodore Rodney Rhoades RAN, who commanded HMAS Vendetta of the celebrated “Scrap Iron Flotilla” which supplied Tobruk during the World War II siege, has died in Sydney. He was 83. ...
HMAS CERBERUS – An Overview
Often referred to as The Cradle of the Navy, HMAS CERBERUS is the premier training establishment of the Royal Australian Navy and has a complement of 132 Officers, 310 Senior ...
A Brief History of HMVS Cerberus
In 1866, the Government of Victoria requested a ship from the British Admiralty to bolster the Colony’s defences. At this time, in England, a new type of ship designed for ...