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The ANI at 50: Masts On The Horizon

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In the early days of the ANI many of its senior members were World War II veterans and some contributed their recollections. Among them...

The RAN bridging train at Suvla Bay

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By Geoff Barnes* When the Australian War Memorial was conceived in the aftermath of World War I in the 1920s, a key part of the...

Podcast: Sinking of HMAS Sydney

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ANI Podcast S04E02 Inaugurated in 2021, The Australian Naval Institute’s Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize is awarded annually by the ANI to recognise excellence in...

The ANI at 50: the RAN & the JMSDF

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As the Department of Defence weighs up either a German and a Japanese frigate design for the RAN’s general purpose frigate, 45 years ago...

Teenager who hunted Japanese submarines

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Gwenda Moulton, aged just 19, sat with six other young women in their green uniforms in the small room she knew only as “Y...

ANI at 50: Admiral Zumwalt

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The eleventh article drawn from Davey Jones’ Locker is from a special Seapower 1979 edition of the Journal of Australian Naval Institute. As a...

ANI At 50: International Uncertainty

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The tenth article drawn from Davey Jones’ Locker is from the February 1979 edition of the Journal of Australian Naval Institute. The Journal has...

The ANI at 50: Maritime Strategy

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The ninth article retrieved from Davey Jones’s Locker comes from the November 1978 edition of the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute. The article...

The ANI at 50: A path to survival in sedentary naval life

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Below is the eighth article drawn from ‘Davy Jones’ Locker’. It is “A Path to Survival in Sedentary Naval Life” by the then Lieutenant...

History of HMAS Melbourne on the way

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The long and distinguished history of the Royal Australian Navy’s aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne is about to be published. This 202-page book from the...