An upending day for the US Navy
The men and women aboard the Navy destroyer Carney could be forgiven for thinking they were headed toward a quiet cruise on Oct. 7,...
Teddy Sheean statue to be unveiled
On 11 November, a life-sized statue of Edward “Teddy” Sheean VC, the only naval person to have ever been awarded a Victoria Cross of...
The finding of Montevideo Maru
The loss and finding the wreck of the Montevideo Maru (with the loss of 850 Australia service members is the subject of an Australian...
The Falklands Campaign – personal reflections
By Jeremy Larken DSO*
Introduction
The canvas for this paper is the Falklands Campaign in 1982, events encompassing some 100 days. My post was Captain of...
Mines: Operation Render Safe 2024
The Australian Defence Force-led Operation Render Safe 2024 sees up to 250 personnel from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the...
Learning from Canada’s N-sub experience
Back in 1987, when no one knew that the Cold War was just about to end, the Canadian Government signed up to build 10...
WWI vessel found off Scotland
A wreck discovered off the Aberdeenshire coast is believed to be a lost Royal Navy warship sunk by a torpedo during World War One....
New missile hits old Russian ship
One of the world’s oldest active-duty naval ships has been damaged by a modern guided missile. The ship is the Russian Navy’s Kommuna, an...
Wreck of WWII US submarine found
The Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) has confirmed the wreck site of the World War II submarine USS Harder (SS-257), US Naval Institute...
Japan urged to clean up Pacific war wrecks
Ten years ago, Paul Adams was scuba diving among World War II shipwrecks in a popular tourist spot in the Federated States of Micronesia...