From the ANI Archives: Seapower & the War on Terror
As we observe over recent weeks US naval and air forces once more engaged in a war in the Persian Gulf, commentators try and...
From the ANI Archives: HMS Nottingham
In 2002 the British destroyer HMS Nottingham (Commander Richard Farrington) ran aground off Lord Howe Island. The ship survived thanks to the damage control...
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...













