IN OCTOBER 1914, Sydney and her sister ship Melbourne detached from the Flagship (Australia) and returned to Australia to form a unit of the escort of the first Anzac convoy ...
RAN operations
Flag Officers Commanding Australian Fleet, 1913-1986
Vice-Admiral Sir George E. Patey, KCMG, KCVO, MVO 1913-1916 Rear-Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham, KCB, MVO 1916-1917 Rear-Admiral Arthur Cavenagh Leveson, CB 1917-1918 Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, KCMG, CB, CMG ...
ML 817’s New Guinea Operations
New Meaning put into the word Camouflage WARSHIP CAMOUFLAGE came in some weird and wonderful forms during WW II. But for one of the smaller ships of the RAN it ...
Flinders Naval Depot
Flinders Naval Depot – The Cradle of the RAN ONE RESULT OF THE FAMOUS HENDERSON REPORT of 1910 was the establishment of a naval depot at Crib Point, Victoria. Originally ...
Coal Ship — A Memory
Siting of guns at Flinders Naval Depot
In December 1941 CPO Don Walker was instructed to take a group of seamen, train them as a crew for a 3.7 inch howitzer and, when they were considered to ...
Escape From Gumusluck (Turkey, 1943)
HMAS Warramunga, the Second of the Australian Built Tribals 1942 – 1963
The Navy – Old and New
THE NAVY IN THE EARLY YEARS of the century prided itself in being capable of doing anything anybody else could do and do it better. It was the last years ...