Red kangaroo finds place in AWM
EIGHTY years to the day since HMAS Parramatta (II) was lost, the red kangaroo funnel insignia from successor ship Parramatta (IV) was donated to the...
Award of the 2021 Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize
The Australian Naval Institute has awarded the inaugural Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize. The 2021 recipient of the Prize is Teddy Sheean VC – A...
WWII Broome bombing recalled
During World War Two, a surprise air raid on the remote Australian town of Broome killed scores of people.
But even in Australia it is...
Video of HMAS Sydney’s Thomas Welsby Clark service
https://youtu.be/WLSMOKvpgNM
Sydney: sailor identified but mystery remains
By Brendan Nicholson*
DNA evidence has finally confirmed that a Royal Australian Navy sailor whose body was found in a life raft near Christmas Island...
The dying moments of HMAS Sydney
By Tom Lewis*
This article first appeared in Quadrant and is republished here with the kind permission of the author, naval historian Dr Tom Lewis,...
80 years on: only body from HMAS Sydney identified
Eighty years to the day after the Australian warship HMAS Sydney II sunk off the West Australian coast, the only body recovered from the...
99yo officer’s service celebrated
Michael Hickie is one of the last surviving submarine commanders who served in World War II. The Narrabeen resident has dived under ice floes...
USS Peary: doomed from the start
Destroyer doomed from the start – the rewritten story of USS Peary’s final combat action in Darwin 1942
By Dr Tom Lewis OAM*
This article was...
USS Johnson wreck found
After nearly 77 years undisturbed on the floor of the Pacific, the USS Johnston — sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf — has...