Remembering Vice Admiral Robert Walls AO RAN (Retired) September 3, 2023 By John Mortimer and John Perryman On 28 August 2023 Vice Admiral Robert Andrew Kevin Walls passed away after a long illness. He was an officer who developed into an insightful strategic thinker and made a significant contribution to the post-carrier RAN. Robert Walls […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rear Admiral Geoffrey James Alexander Bayliss, AM, RAN Rtd RADM Geoffrey Bayliss was born in 1937 in the remote highlands of Burma and attended Brisbane Boys College. Following National Service as an infantry soldier in the Australian Army, he joined the RAN in Feb 1958 as an undergraduate medical officer at the University of Queensland. […]
This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10 March 2022. It is a reminder of the selfless service that so many have given to the RAN and their country. Navy’s top clearance diver led demolition of WWII bombs and mines WILLIAM TERENCE FITZGERALD: March 23, 1929-March 5, 2022 William (Bill) Fitzgerald was a […]
Dutton and Chief of the Navy Respond to Fears Around Hunter Class Publication of a leaked engineering report criticising the anticipated performance of the RAN’s future Hunter-class frigates has drawn swift rebuttals from the Defence Minister, Defence, and the Chief of Navy. Details of the classified ‘Engineering Team Assessment’ undertaken by Defence in November were […]
France and China Fuelling India and Pakistan Submarine Race South Asian rivals are cranking up competing submarine development programs with duelling strategic partners. In an apparent underwater warfare tit-for-tat, India and Pakistan are bolstering their conventional submarine fleets with French and Chinese assistance respectively. INS Vagir during acceptance trials This month, India began sea trials […]
JFD Successfully Completes NATO Submarine Rescue System Golden Arrow Exercise 2021 JFD successfully completed a comprehensive submarine rescue exercise to mobilise the NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS). The exercise, titled Golden Arrow, was the first deployment of the whole rescue spread since September 2019 and the first sea deployment of the new fibre optic video […]
Upon the request from Tonga, the Chinese military has sent two naval vessels to the country with China’s second batch of disaster-relief supplies in the aftermath of a volcano eruption, sailing off from South China’s Guangzhou on 31 January, the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Experts believe the navy is fully prepared for […]
