A cavern offering contemplation, reflection and reverence of figures and times past: a ‘Ship to Heaven’ commemorating those who lost their lives whilst or after serving in the Royal Australian ...
Tales from the Dockyard: The Silver Docket
Tales from the Dockyard: Dan Craig’s Medal
Tales from the Dockyard: ‘Ingenuity Rules’
Lest it be thought that there was no humour in HM Naval Yard, Garden Island, during G.H. Bromwich’s long term in office, the following account by an apprentice boilermaker of ...
Captain Cook Graving Dock
The sixtieth anniversary of the official opening of the (then) largest dry dock in the Southern Hemisphere by the Governor General, HRH the Duke of Gloucester, falls on 24 March ...
Helm Orders
HELM ORDERS GIVEN in British ships prior to 1934 were relative to tiller movement irrespective of whether steering was by tiller or wheel. The orders of the Officer of the ...
Edward Albert Amphlett – Paymaster RN
Garden Island – The Barracks Building
History of the “Consuela” Figurehead at Garden Island
Rear Admiral Sir Henry Wilfred Eldon Manisty KCB CMG RN
“… a really capable officer,” NHR Vol. 17 No. 3 1996 (September 1996). I have long considered that the contribution made by Staff Paymaster (later Fleet Paymaster) Eldon Manisty RN, ...