The Abyssinia Crisis – a Lesson for today
By John Perryman
The rise to power in Italy of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini saw the resumption of a foreign policy aimed at expanding...
ANI at 50: Battle of Trafalgar
From the Davy Jones’s Locker
The fifth in the series of ‘Davy Jones’s Locker’ articles is from the August 1976 edition of the Journal of...
ANI at 50: Australia’s maritime trade
From the Davy Jones’s Locker
The fourth in the series of ‘Davy Jones’s Locker’ articles is from the fourth edition of the Journal of the...
ANI at 50: Ship Handling Corner
From the Davy Jones’s Locker
In the second of the series of reaching into Davy Jones’s Locker and the early editions of the Journal of...
ANI at 50: incorporation glitches
From the Davy Jones’s Locker
As part of the ANI’s 50th Anniversary commemorations, selected articles from the first editions of the Journal of the Australian...
D-Day veteran turns 100 in Tasmania
By Tom Lewis*
It is a long way from England for a veteran of the 1944 D-Day landings, but Tasmania is where Les Elliott made...
A nuclear submarine by any other name
The 7th and final Astute-class submarine being constructed for the RN is set to be named HMS Achilles in a change from what had...
History: N-sub’s escape after sea mount crash
With their ability to stay hidden within the depths of the oceans and charge with fury when a threat is detected, nuclear submarines are...
Cyclone Tracy and the sinking of HMAS Arrow – 50 years on
It’s 50 years this Christmas since Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin. In this extract from his new book Cyclone Warriors – the Armed Forces and...
End of Tirpitz ‘The Beast’
By Mark Baker*
Eighty years ago, 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle and far from home, the greatest battleship ever built — and the...