When the War broke out I was on exchange with the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean as a very lowly Midshipman. We immediately sailed for our war station in Simonstown in South Africa. Our main task was to keep lookout for two German Battlecruisers, namely the Graf Sree and the Scheer which had sailed from […]
US Ambassador John Berry lays a wreath commemorating the Battle of the Coral Sea on the bow of museum ship HMAS Vampire. Veterans and members of the Australian and the American Militaries, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen: On May 8, 1942, the Allied strategic victory of the Coral Sea changed the course of history. Without […]
ANNUAL COMMEMORATION AND LUNCH SYDNEY, 7 MAY 2016 Address by Rear Admiral James Goldrick AO CSC RAN at the Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney We think of the face of naval battle as grey warships on a blue horizon, with the flash of guns and the splash of shells. We imagine it as very frightening […]
