The Royal Australian Navy will conduct its Exercise Kakadu Fleet Review on Sydney Harbour on 21 March. The Fleet Review will see the largest gathering of warships on Sydney Harbour in more than a decade, with up to 30 ships from Australia and international partners in attendance. 📍 6am – 12pm Ceremonial entry of […]
narrated by Commander Russell Crowe RAN
Military historian Tom Lewis writes from his book “Australian Coastal Wars”: Numbers tell the story of Australia’s northern war The anniversary of the first air raid on Australia occurs every year on 19 February. The numbers associated with the 1942 attack – and beyond – give some measure of the huge extent to which northern […]
Defence Australia : Armidale-class sail into history. The Royal Australian Navy has formally farewelled its Armidale-class Patrol Boats, HMA Ships: Albany Bathurst Childers The HMA Ships arrived into port for a final time at HMAS Coonawarra, Northern Territory, and a decommissioning ceremony was held in their honour. The ships accumulated more than five decades of combined […]
Farewell to the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarine, USS Vermont, which has departed Western Australia following a landmark package of maintenance work at HMAS Stirling, south of Perth. The extended port visit was the first time a US nuclear-powered submarine has undergone a maintenance period in Australia without a US support ship, achieved through the combined efforts […]
Defence News – Flight Lieutenant Vernon Pather – On Anzac Day this year, Able Seaman Rachel Brandt will have the perfect opportunity to pay respects to her great-great-uncle who fought and died in World War 1 – she will be parading at Gallipoli as part of Australia’s Federation Guard catafalque party on the 110th anniversary […]
The New Entry Officer’s Course 55 (NEOC 55) passing out parade took place on the Quaterdeck of HMAS Creswell with Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, AC and Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, AO, CSC, RAN. At the most recent graduation of New Entry Officers on 1 December at HMAS […]
Prize Giving at RANC July 2015
