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Book Review: Like a Wicked Noah’s Ark – The Nautical School Ships Vernon and Sobraon

Book reviewer · Mar 1, 2022 ·

Like a Wicked Noah’s Ark – The Nautical School Ships Vernon and Sobraon A paperback of 362 pages by Sarah Luke, published by Arcadia, 2020. RRP $44.00.  As the old saying ...

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 ...

Palm Islands – a Naval Connection

Walter Burroughs · Jun 24, 2020 ·

By Walter Burroughs The Palm Islands and Challenger Bay affords a large sheltered deep-water anchorage, the last such facility on Australia’s east coast before reaching the northern extremity of the ...

HMAS Leeuwin

A.N. Other · Jun 30, 2017 ·

Recent planning for the redevelopment of the ex HMAS Leeuwinsite has aroused considerable interest amongst the naval community and we are pleased to have some further thoughts from Roy Stall, ...

Navy Training Today

A.N. Other · Mar 29, 2017 ·

By Captain Mal Ralston, RAN In 1903, the Commonwealth Naval Board was constituted under the Defence Act. One of its first responsibilities was to commence home-based naval training of young ...

The HMAS Melbourne-Voyager Collision: A Tragedy that Damaged and Reformed

A.N. Other · Dec 28, 2016 ·

By MIDN Mollie Burns, RAN – NEOC 54 Naval Historical Society Prizewinning Essay Introduction The collision of HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager remains the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) worst peacetime disaster. Occurring ...

Reflections on four decades in the profession of Naval Engineering – and Jacky Fisher got it right!

A.N. Other · Sep 24, 2013 ·

By Rear Admiral David Holthouse, AO, RAN (Rtd)  David Holthouse entered the Australian Naval College in 1950, just a few days after his 14th birthday. He had an outstanding career ...

Royal Naval Engineering College Manadon’s Centenary

A.N. Other · Dec 24, 2012 ·

By Ron Robb  Most engineering officers serving in the RAN have at some time or other studied in HMS Thunderer, the Royal Naval Engineering College at Plymouth in England. Ex-students ...

816 Squadron – the Fighting Tigers

A.N. Other · Mar 13, 2012 ·

By LCDR Nick Hattersley, RAN “Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more; Or close up the wall with our English dead. In peace there’s nothing so becomes a ...

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Aviator or Seaman or Both?

van Gelder, Commander John RAN (Rtd) · Sep 1, 2005 ·

It is now comparatively rare for a naval aviator to also qualify as a seagoing watchkeeping officer, but in previous generations it was relatively straightforward and kept one in the ...

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