IF ALL THE GREAT SHIPS of Her Majesty’s Australian Navy, the ship which has possibly received the least acclaim, and yet the one which should receive high honours, is HMAS ...
HMAS Sydney I
The RAN – 1918-1919
First of the Line – HMAS Albatross, first aircraft carrier
WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER1 emerged from the 1914-18 war as a major weapon of war, it was inevitable that the Royal Australian Navy – with the largest island continent in ...
The Submarine AE2 in World War One
This Man Howden – Captain Harry L. Howden, CBE, RAN
The First England to Australia Submarine Voyage
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 4
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 3
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 2
Australian Naval Aviation – Part 1
THE HISTORY OF WORLD naval aviation began, tentatively, in the lighter-than-air era. As far back as November 1861, during the American Civil War, the Union Army – employing maritime techniques – released the Washington balloon from a remodelled coal barge, the G.W. Parke Curtis, to observe the enemy at Budd’s Ferry. ...