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Navy Gap Year Experience

A.N. Other · Mar 1, 2022 ·

By MIDN Lloyd Skinner RAN The Navy Gap Year program was established to provide Sailor and Officer recruits the opportunity to undertake a ‘try before you buy’ approach to a ...

Weather Islands

A.N. Other · Mar 1, 2022 ·

By Malcolm Riley1  This article first appeared in the September 2020 edition of Afloat and is reproduced with the kind permission of the editor of that magazine and of the ...

James Gorman VC

Swinden, Greg · Mar 1, 2022 ·

By Greg Swinden If not for a newly released book and the recent death of a medal collector the name of Victoria Cross (VC) winner James Gorman would have remained ...

The Queensland Maritime Museum

Editorial Staff · Mar 1, 2022 ·

The Queensland Maritime Museum (QMM) is facing an uncertain future as a number of recent unfortunate events have conspired to undermine the credibility of this important institution which until recent ...

The Australian Antarctic Territory and the Australian Antarctic Research Survey Ship Nuyina

Editorial Staff · Dec 29, 2021 ·

With the arrival of the new Australian Antarctic ship Nuyina at her home port of Hobart it is appropriate to look back to the beginning of our association with the ...

Remediation of the Australian Landing Helicopter Dock (ALHD) Propulsion Problems

A.N. Other · Dec 29, 2021 ·

By Phil Baldwin, CEng CMarEng FIMarEST Background In November 2007 the Australian Department of Defence procured two ALHDs through BAE Systems Australia. The platform was based on the Navantia (Spain) ...

Australia’s Search for Maritime Self-Defence: Historical Conventional Inheritance or Regional Nuclear Obeisance?

A.N. Other · Dec 29, 2021 ·

By Kate Reid-Smith In the early twentieth century, Australia’s first Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Sir William Rooke Creswell, suggested the nation’s future path lay outside Imperial Britain. It was ...

Shipbuilding and the Australian Naval Shipbuilding College

Editorial Staff · Dec 29, 2021 ·

A number of well-intentioned Government initiatives are not necessarily known in the wider community. In the case of the Naval Shipbuilding College this is a pity, as this organisation has ...

The Arthur Lunan Story: Part 1

A.N. Other · Dec 29, 2021 ·

  The late Arthur Lunan maintained a diary of his wartime service in the RAN from 1941 to 1946. His brother-in-law William Moody has digitised this and added some family ...

The Remarkable Story of the Naval Heritage Flight (NHF) and the Historic Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS)

A.N. Other · Dec 29, 2021 ·

By Carl Robinson1 and Terry Hetherington2 Created in early 1985 at HMAS Albatross, the RAN Historic Flight was an ambitious project to keep a representative core of Australia’s classic navy ...

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