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...
Attack Class Patrol Boats in Northern Australia podcast
The latest Australian Naval History podcast tells the colourful story of the Attack Class patrol boats in northern Australia. It includes the gripping story of the loss...
Metal pirates threaten AE1
Scavengers, trophy hunters and “metal pirates” are looting the treasures under the seas – and there are fears Australia’s first submarine could be next,...
The origins of ANZUS
By Peter Edwards*
When was the Australian–American alliance founded, and by whom? Over the past eight decades, those questions have often been debated, usually with...
Gentlemen yachtsmen who volunteered
The following is the speech given by Janet Billett at the unveiling of a plaque at the Australian War Memorial in memory of the RANVR...