Frederick Norton Cook joined the Royal Australian Naval College as a Cadet Midshipman in 1919. In 1936 he served as Flag Lieutenant to the Fleet Commander, Rear Admiral WTR Ford CB, onboard HA/L4S Canberra and on promotion to Lieutenant Commander in 1936 he was posted to the destroyer HMAS Waterhen as First Lieutenant, Executive and Gunnery Officer. In 1938 he was sent […]
By Mike Rossiter Reviewed by Kevin Rickard It was just before dawn in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945 when a bright flash filled the pre-dawn with a penetrating daylight. Next there was a huge shock wave as a great purplish column rose up into the sky, then there was a blast, duller […]
byTom de Voil, Nicholson VIC I was MEO of HMAS Duchess in 1972 and we were secured alongside in the Stores Basin in Singapore when it was similarly busy. We decided to hold an Engineering Departmental banyan on Seletar Island that Saturday afternoon. Seletar Island was an uninhabited island in Johore Strait a few kilometres […]
By Hector Donohue The following description of a little known incident onboard Yarra during Confrontation is taken from the recently published book ‘United and Undaunted – the First 100 Years’, a history of Diving in the RAN 1911 – 2011, by EW Linton and HJ Donohue. The Indonesia – Malaysia Confrontation (Konfrontasi) was fought from […]
