This study seeks to lay out the extent to which the function and influence of the Royal Navy (RN) was replaced by the United States Navy (USN) from the years 1939 to 2001, for the Royal Austra-lian Navy (RAN).
In October 1959 the Defence Joint Planning Committee agreed to the introduction of a submarine force in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Australia subsequently ordered four Oberon class conventional submarines from the United Kingdom (UK).
In a series of meetings convened over 1949–50, the governments of Australia, Britain and New Zealand negotiated the Australia-New Zealand-Malaya arrangement (ANZAM).
Although this segment of future Royal Navy (RN) officers from settler colonies was spoken about at the time, extraordinarily little has been written about them.
In August 2016, HMS Echo was tasked to relieve HMS Enterprise as the UK contribution to Operation SOPHIA - the EUNAVFOR MED mission to combat people smuggling in the Central Mediterranean out of Libya. After completing her Basic Operational Sea Trials (BOST) in October, Echo deployed from the UK and arrived in theatre in December.
"With “more activity from Russian submarines than we’ve seen since the days of the Cold War”, an improved European force posture becomes vital for the US Navy and NATO.
This book represents the definitive study of how the operation of three very modern guided missile destroyers, acquired from the United States Navy, acted as catalysts in the Royal Australian Navy’s transformation from being an adjunct to the Roya
This volume was commissioned to research records in British archives about the disappearance of HMAS Sydney in November 1941 and to investigate opinion of that period which might be relevant to knowledge of the disappearance of the cruiser.
This volume provides readers with the essential documents relating to the rationale and organisation of the naval forces on the Royal Navy’s Australia Station before the formal transfer of authority to the RAN in 1913.