Captain Robert Ray MBE RAN Retd passed away on 25 March 2023. This obituary was compiled by his former FAA colleage, Max Speedy. Bob joined the Navy in 1956 as an Apprentice (Aircraft Artificer) in the very first intake at HMAS NIRIMBA and in 1959 when the Government of the day announced the demise of […]
Outstanding Naval Officer and Internationally Acclaimed Naval Historian and Strategist By Vice Admiral Peter Jones, ANI President On 17 March 2023 Rear Admiral James Goldrick died in Canberra. He was a naval officer of exceptional intellect and influence, who became Australia’s most internationally acclaimed naval historian. James was born in 1958 to Caroline and Peter […]
Australia’s Nuclear Submarines – Costs and Timelines The dust is settling from the momentous AUKUS announcement in San Diego. What can we expect in the coming decade? A follow-on examination of the known facts by Jack Dillich A Virginia class fast attack submarine Introduction The AUKUS trilateral pact made a big splash in the news […]
Eulogy by RADM The Hon. Justice M.J. Slattery RAN on behalf of Chief of Navy 16 March 2023 There is another chapter to Murray’s story, for he was a member of two honourable professions, the profession of law and the profession of arms. Indeed, 10 years before Murray received the first of his three commissions […]
By Editor Jack Dillich provided this article for publication in December 2022 but, unfortunately, it went into an email black hole and was only discovered on 20 February, by which time the way forward with AUKUS was announced and the content of the article has been overtaken by events. Nevertheless, this article provides excellent food […]
White Ensign Oration 03 March 2023 What a great honour it is to be speaking on the First Gulf War tonight. It is now some 32 years since we fought that conflict. I joined the Navy in 1976 at the old age of 16, and that was some 31 years after the end of the […]
More than two centuries ago, one of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, famously said: ‘An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.’ At that time, he was talking about the need for more universal education at a basic level. Today, as the Indo-Pacific faces its toughest security environment in decades, the same principle should […]
The crew of a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) warship rescued six mariners from a 30- metre motor yacht north of Australia on Monday, March 6. A rigid inflatable boat (RIB) was deployed from the destroyer HMAS Hobart in unfavourable conditions to enable the rescue of the yacht’s crew, who had experienced engine trouble and became […]
It was “all hands on deck” today at HMAS Watson as CN hosted a joint celebration recognising the RAN’s 122nd birthday and RADM Guy Griffith’s 100th birthday. Retired senior officers, serving senior officers, COMAUSFLT and senior staff, members of the many ship’s associations RADM Griffiths was the Patron of, together with family and friends and […]
