From the ANI Archives: Mid-East
In the wake of the RAN’s notable contribution to operations in the North Arabian Gulf in the early 2000s, the then Commodore Flotillas, Commodore...
From the ANI Archive: Iraq War Part 4
The chronological trawl through the Journal of Australian Naval Institute has reached 2003 and this March is the 23rd anniversary of the commencement of...
From the ANI Archives: Iraq War Part 3
The chronological trawl through the Journal of Australian Naval Institute has reached 2003 and this March is the 23rd anniversary of the commencement of...
From the ANI Archive: Iraq War Part 2
The chronological trawl through the Journal of Australian Naval Institute has reached 2003 and this March is the 23rd anniversary of the commencement of...
From the ANI Archive: Iraq War Pt 1
The chronological trawl through the Journal of Australian Naval Institute has reached 2003 and this March is the 23rd anniversary of the commencement of...
ANI Archives: Darwin’s Floating Dock
From the ANI Archives: Darwin’s Floating Dock
In September 2025 former ANI councillor Nick Tate highlighted that the Captain Cook Graving Dock is Australia’s only...
From the ANI Archives: Australia’s first all-welded warship
From the early days of Federation, building warships in Australia was first an aspiration and then a reality. Since those years there have been...
From the ANI Archives: Beazley on Australian Seapower
The Hon. Kim Beazley possessed a greater understanding of maritime strategy than most Ministers for Defence. The Autumn 2003 edition of the Journal of...
From the ANI Archives: The Boxer Rebellion
One of the few operations undertaken by Australia’s pre-Federation navies was by some of them being involved in dealing with the Boxer Rebellion. In...
From the ANI Archives: the North Arabian Gulf
From the ANI Archives: The North Arabian Gulf
The RAN’s longest operational commitment was its successive deployments to the North Arabian Gulf. The tasking ranged...