Report on the fate on the Endeavour
The Australian National Maritime Museum has issued its final report detailing the results and conclusions of a more than two-decade project to discover the...
Cockatoo Island: shipyard for 134 years
Naval Historical Society of Australia: The First Naval Dockyard of the Royal Australian Navy Cockatoo Island, Shipbuilding, 1870 to 1986
By David Michael*
Cockatoo Island is...
The ANI at 50: The Carrier Debate
During the late 1970s and 1980s the ‘carrier debate’, ie whether to replace the RAN’s flagship and sole aircraft carrier, HMAS Melbourne, occupied many...
Sunken USS Yorktown’s 83-year-old secrets
Eighty-three years after sinking, the USS Yorktown is still revealing secrets. During an expedition last month, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
The ANI at 50: the Falklands War
The 16th article reproduced from early editions of the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute is about the Falklands War. The article is titled,...
The ANI at 50: Masts On The Horizon
In the early days of the ANI many of its senior members were World War II veterans and some contributed their recollections. Among them...
The RAN bridging train at Suvla Bay
By Geoff Barnes*
When the Australian War Memorial was conceived in the aftermath of World War I in the 1920s, a key part of the...
Podcast: Sinking of HMAS Sydney
ANI Podcast S04E02
Inaugurated in 2021, The Australian Naval Institute’s Commodore Sam Bateman Book Prize is awarded annually by the ANI to recognise excellence in...
The ANI at 50: the RAN & the JMSDF
As the Department of Defence weighs up either a German and a Japanese frigate design for the RAN’s general purpose frigate, 45 years ago...
Teenager who hunted Japanese submarines
Gwenda Moulton, aged just 19, sat with six other young women in their green uniforms in the small room she knew only as “Y...