An account of the search for the German Pacific Fleet (Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Dresden, Emden) by the battle cruiser Australia after the German ships had left Rabaul on 11th August ...
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Honorary Commodore – Captain A. V. Knight
This biography of Australia’s most distinguished Reserve Officer is told by his former First Lieutenant. Captain A. V. Knight, OBE, DSC, RD, US Legion of Merit RANR(S) Rtd, served with ...
A Century of Japanese Intelligence – Part IV
Origins of the QUEENSLAND Navy
Old Thunder and Lightning – the Origins of the Queensland Navy IT WAS A RUSSIAN SCARE in the eighteen seventies that caused the Queensland Government of the day to form ...
Ship Design at the Turn of the Century
The turn of the century produced an unusual range of warships as these photographs show: ...
Sydney’s Walrus in battle with three Italian fighters
IN RESPONSE TO THE ARTICLE ‘Pusser’s Bus’ which appeared in the December issue, Vice-Admiral Sir John Collins, Sydney’s Captain in the Mediterranean, writes: ‘I feel sure that Sydney’s Walrus should ...
Surrender of Yokosuka Naval Base
A Century of Japanese Intelligence – Part III
In the third instalment of his article on Japanese Intelligence Lt.Cdr. Swan describes in detail the vast network of spies planted in California, Mexico and Hawaii by the Japanese. An ...