Sailors and Royal Marines will wear His Majesty The King’s cypher on their uniforms for the first time at the coronation parade in May. Petty Officers, Chief Petty Officers, Warrant Officers and Officers on parade during the historic event will bear the Tudor Crown, which appears on The King’s cypher, on their caps. Royal Marines […]
ST Engineering Marine has won a contract to build six multi-role combat vessels (MRCVs) to replace the Republic of Singapore Navy’s Victory-class missile corvettes. Alongside the construction, the company will facilitate the integration and procurement of related platform equipment for the vessels. Furthermore, integrated logistics support engineering will be provided to sustain the operational readiness […]
HMCS Margaret Brooke (AOPV 431) the second Harry DeWolf-class AOPS for the Royal Canadian landscape The Royal Canadian Navy is offering a one-year trial period for Canadians to join with “no strings attached” as it faces a major recruitment challenge and unprecedented personnel shortage. Under the new program launched Friday, Canadian citizens and permanent […]
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 […]
The 2023 defence strategic review, which sets out how Australia can sustain its security and sovereignty, has been handed to the government. In terms of the concept of warning time developed in the 1987 defence white paper, we’ve moved from a force structure designed to deal with ‘escalated low-level conflict’ to one able to engage […]
The Bradley’s Head Naval Memorial is the site of the HMAS Sydney I memorial mast, which commemorates the “Sydney-Emden” action. This was the first engagement at sea of a Royal Australian Navy ship during the First World War on 9 November 1914 at Keeling Island near Cocos Island. The memorial also honours those who served […]
Australia’s defence and technology industry will be tested like never before by the AUKUS partnership in managing the torrent of sensitive information flowing from partner countries and in defining the shape of the agreement itself. Whatever form the agreement ultimately takes, it looks sure to usher in an unprecedented level of information sharing among Australia, […]
