Bell from historic shipwreck recovered
Defence Equipment & Support’s Salvage and Marine Operations (SALMO) team has recovered an iconic symbol of one of the most notable US Navy shipwrecks,...
Lessons from the cod wars
In this Navy Lookout article, Will Green considers the fishing disputes with Iceland between the 1950-70s and how the Royal Navy’s involvement provides an...
Spanish galleon to be raised
The Colombian government has announced that it will attempt to raise objects from the 1708 shipwreck of the galleon San José, which is believed...
The souvenir collection from the midget submarine raids
By Tom Lewis*
In 1942 Sydney Harbour was attacked by three Japanese midget submarines, launched from four mother submarines, one of which had flown an...
Monument in Malaysia to Prince of Wales and Repulse tragedy
At Kuatan, the King of Malaysia (Yang di-Pertuan Agong), Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah unveiled a memorial to the loss of the battleship...
Hopes HMAS Sheean will be given to Tasmania
The Tasmanian Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Guy Barnett, hopes the Federal Government will give HMAS Sheen to Tasmania when she is decommissioned.
Minister Barnett put...
Battle of Surigao Strait Interpretative Centre
A building that is a replica of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamashiro opened in Butuan City on 1 December. Governor Nilo Demerey...
Commemorating PoWs lost at sea
Every night when Les Drew came home, he would turn the corner and look at the four flagpoles in the garden, one for three...
WWII carrier wreckage’s resting place
The wreckage site of a World War II U.S. Navy escort carrier was identified July 10 by the Naval History and Heritage Command’s Underwater...
The first dismantling of a nuclear carrier
For more than a decade, the US Navy has considered the former Enterprise (CVN-65) no longer operational. In fact, since 2018, the 1,101-foot behemoth...