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...
From the ANI Archives: The ANZUS Treaty
The Summer 2003 edition of the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute published an article by the then Commander Jonathan Mead on the utility...
From ANI Archives: Recollections of a 1970s Naval Planner
From the ANI Archives: Recollections of a 1970s Naval Planner
The Summer 2003 edition of the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute contains the engaging...
From the ANI Archive: Navigating the Fly River
The reprinting of old articles published in the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute, which was part of the commemorative activities for the ANI’s...
ANI at 50: The History of the ANI
The last ‘ANI at 50’ in 2025 has a reprint of a short history of the ANI that was published earlier this year in...