Mount Hood Explosion
A volcanic peak in the Cascade Range of Oregon. I (AE-11: displacement 13,910 tons; length 459’2″; beam 63′; draft 28’3″; speed 16 knots; complement 318; armament 1 5-inch, 4 3-inch,…
HMS Berwick in Halifax 1944 During Churchill Attendance at Second Quebec Conference
In September 1944, Churchill again embarked on the Queen Mary en route to the second Quebec conference. His private secretary, Jock Colville, described the meals on board as gargantuan in…
Australian AA River Class Frigates
The flat-faced (or more box-like) bridge on Australian Navy River-class frigates was a design modification, mainly on the four “Modified River”/Bay-class equivalents (HMAS Condamine, Culgoa, Murchison, and Shoalhaven), to improve…
HMS Vanguard
By Alf Batchelder Naval Historical Society of Australia On 6 March 1948, the Melbourne Argus reported that…never before in modern times has the sea-going strength of the Royal Navy been…
October 16 Australian Naval History
Australian Naval History on 16 October 1818 HMC brig LADY NELSON returned to Port Jackson, Sydney, after an unsuccessful search for survivors from the schooner WILLIAM COSSAR, in the Port…
British Special Service Squadron Visits British Columbia 1924
At sea, heading for Canada: 13 – 20 June 1924 Esquimalt and Victoria British Columbia, Canada: 21 – 25 June 1924 After nearly a week at sea, which included night…
HMS Vidal Annexes Rockall for UK
By Ricky D Phillips Military Historian HMS Vidal a Royal Navy survey ship formally annexed the remote Atlantic islet of Rockall for the United Kingdom September 18,1955. The British government…
HMAS AE1
HMAS AE1 was launched in the yard of Vickers Ltd at Barrow-in-Furness, England on 22 May 1913. She was commissioned at Portsmouth on 28 February 1914. She was the first…
Intruder on the Edge of the Breach
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, at 9:37 a.m., American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, claiming the lives of 184 people. In the immediate, chaotic aftermath –…
