Download or read book Australia s Colonial Navies written by Ross Gillett and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Colonial Navies written by Colin Jones and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia 1795 1855 written by Daniel Simpson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum. In response to increasing calls for the ‘decolonisation’ of museums and the restitution of ethnographic collections, the book seeks to return knowledge of the moments, methods, and motivations whereby Indigenous Australian objects were first collected and sent to Britain. By structuring its discussion in terms of three key ‘stages’ of a typical naval voyage to Australia—departure from British shores, arrival on the continent’s coasts, and eventual return to port—the book offers a nuanced and multifaceted understanding of the pathways followed by these 135 objects into the British Museum. The book offers important new understandings of Indigenous Australian peoples’ reactions to naval visitors, and contains a wealth of original research on the provenance and meaning of some of the world’s oldest extant Indigenous Australian object collections.
Download or read book History of the Colonial Navies written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ordnance and Associated Equipment of the Australian Colonial Navies and the Commonwealth Naval Forces 1855 1910 written by David Spethman and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study begins with an introduction which covers: Australia - Discovery, Settlement, Marine Surveys and the Royal Navy between 1698-1849; this is followed by Part One which covers: The Royal Navy in Australia from 1821 to 1888. Part Two covers: The Australia Station of the Royal Navy and the Australian Colonial Navies 1866-1885; Part Three covers: The Australia Station, the Australian Colonial Navies, Federation and Beyond from 1886 to 1910. Part Four covers: The Ordnance and Associated Equipment of the Australian Colonial Navies and the Commonwealth Naval Forces from 1855-1910.Part Four, the largest of the four parts describes thirty-seven separate pieces of Ordnance that were used, along with serial numbers, manufacturers and dates, where known. It should be noted, that if a serial number has proven to be impossible to locate a space has been provided, but left blank. There are sections on mountings, ammunition, fuzes, notes on early torpedoes and the arming of ship's boats, to mention a few.The four parts are followed by five appendices; One covers B.L. gun drills for the 8-inch, 12-ton and 6-inch, 4-ton and 5-ton B.L. guns; Two covers Q.F. gun drills for the 4.7-inch on P. IV mountings and the 6-Pounder, Hotchkiss, Q.F. gun on cone-recoil mountings; Three covers Machine Gun Drills for the 1-inch, 2 and 4-Barrel and .45-inch, 5-Barrel Nordenfelt guns on ships mountings; Four gives a list of Commanding Officers of the Australia Station between 1859 and 1913 including their Flagships. Appendix Five gives a list of ordnance and rounds per gun and mines held by the Queensland Marine Defence Force as at 30th June 1889.
Download or read book No Pleasure Cruise written by Tom Frame and published by Allen & Unwin Academic. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901 Australia's fledgling Federal Government assumed the responsibility for the new nation's defence. Their first task was to take the aged and obsolete remnants of the colonies' navies and create a national navy to defend our island's coastal waters and overseas trade routes. For the first 40 years the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) was designed to serve alongside the Royal Navy, and resembled it in everything but scale. After the Second World War the RAN developed along US lines but, despite these overseas ties, the RAN has developed its own proud character and tradition and has entered the twenty-first century as a confident and independent force in its own right. In No Pleasure Cruise, Australia's best-known naval historian, Dr Tom Frame, charts the RAN's emergence as one of the world's strongest and most respected navies, and its evolving relationship with the Australian public, press and parliament.
Download or read book The Royal Navy and the Australian Colonies 1859 1891 written by Philip Musgrave Cowburn and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Australia Station written by John Bach and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dominion and Colonial Naval Forces written by Sir Eldon Manisty and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Address, 1936 Oct. 4. entitled " Dominion and colonial naval forces", introductory talk to a series on sea power for empire listeners, by Paymaster Rear Admiral Sir Eldon Manisty. The talk discusses the history of Naval forces in Australia from 1856 leading up to the formation of the Royal Australian Navy and Australia's naval participation in World War, 1914-1918.
Download or read book The Navy and the Nation written by David Stevens and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has often been described as a nation shaped by war. From an early age, every Australian is taught the significance of Gallipoli and the Anzac legend. This, however, is but one dimension of the military's impact on our nation's coming of age. Australia, after all, is an island. It was the Navy which explored and founded European Australia, and it is the Navy which has ever since been critical to our national security. With its ancestry in the Royal Navy and the former colony-based navies, the Australian Navy was established in 1901. Since that time it has helped Australia enter the international community as a modern, self-reliant nation and has been indispensable in protecting Australia's sovereignty and national interests. Despite the Navy being one of Australia's oldest and most important institutions, the links between nation-building and the Navy have never before received detailed study. Bringing together scholars from Australia and overseas, The Navy and the Nation examines the extent of the Navy's contribution to our national development. It shows, too, how the Navy has played a vital role in defining our independent national identity. A former naval officer, David Stevens is a graduate of the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University, and is currently Director of Strategic and Historical Studies within the Sea Power Centre - Australia. He has written and edited several books on maritime strategy and naval history. John Reeve is Senior Lecturer and Osborne Fellow in Naval History at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has written extensively on early modern and contemporary diplomatic and strategic issues.
Download or read book Sir William Rooke Creswell and the Foundation of the Australian Navy written by Sheila Dwyer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six Australian colonies united on 1st January 1901 to become the Commonwealth of Australia. One of the reasons given for this federation was that the Commonwealth could provide a common defence. William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in having a 70,000 strong army if only one enemy battleship could destroy port cities and disrupt maritime trade and sea communications. Creswell was not alone in his campaign to establish a navy for Australia but he was the one constant advocate throughout the years from his first proposals on a navy for Australia in 1886 to when the first ships of the Australian Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in October 1913.
Download or read book The Colonies and Imperial Defence written by Percy Arthur Baxter Silburn and published by New York : Longmans, Green and Company. This book was released on 1909 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Time You Arose from Your Slumbers written by James Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal New Zealand Navy celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2016. And yet in 2011 and 2012 the Royal Australian and Canadian navies respectively celebrated their 100th anniversaries. This thesis looks at first two decades of the twentieth century to explain why this is the case, and to try and find an understanding as to why the Royal New Zealand Navy was not founded as a separate force until twenty years after its Australian and Canadian counterparts. I will argue that the main reasons for this situation lie with three major trends, which explained the differences and similarities. First was a prior history of colonial interest and investment in the field of local naval defence, such as the colonial navies of Australia and the HMS Charybdis of Canada, whilst New Zealand continued to rely on British forces. Secondly was strong pressure from both naval officers and politicians oftentimes working in tandem to keep the issue at the forefront of politics and public opinion. Australia’s Creswell and Canada’s Brodeur are the two key players there, and again New Zealand politicians chose not to follow suit. Finally was a public will to take affairs into their own hands and make defence of home waters a local, as opposed to an Empire matter. There was no such public will in New Zealand. By examining Australia, Canada and New Zealand through these three trends, we can explain why Australia and Canada founded navies of their own before World War I while New Zealand did not. It will be argued that New Zealand remained loyal to the ‘Mother Country’ and considered it more cost effective to support the Royal Navy. This thesis is unique in attempting to compare the naval histories of these three countries.
Download or read book BOLD AND LUCKY written by Alan Powell and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonies and Colonial Federations written by Edward John Payne and published by London, MacMillan. This book was released on 1904 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1901 23 The search for security in the Pacific 1901 14 written by N. K. Meaney and published by Sydney : Sydney University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ceaseless Watch written by Angus Britts and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Ceaseless Watch: Australia’s Third Party Naval Defense, 1919–1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post–World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States. Spanning the period leading up to Australia’s greatest security crisis—the military threat posed by Japan throughout the majority of 1942—the work takes the reader all the way up to the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the United States Navy in the Solomon Islands campaign. Angus Britts focuses on Anglo-Australian defense relations from 1919–42 when the British were Australia’s primary naval protectors until they were superseded in the Pacific by the United States in May 1942 at the battle of the Coral Sea. Britts traces the process of the alignment or divergence of differing strategic interests between Australia and Britain in particular. Taking place against the backdrop of Imperial Japan’s expansionism debates within Australian political and defense circles during this period, namely the nature of the most likely threat to the continent itself, what became an important subplot to the events then unfolding in the Pacific. Looking at the development of the “Singapore strategy” which utilized the British fleet at Singapore to protect Australia’s interests, Britts lays out how the cornerstone for Australian defense planning was based on the continued assurances from successive British governments that they would honor their naval commitments should Australia itself eventually come under serious threat from Japanese aggression. The Australian-American defense relationship evolved at a later stage within the timeframe in this work, but the varying interactions between both nations throughout the interwar years are likewise addressed, as is the foundation of their wartime relations. Britts illustrates the difficulty in forming a defense relationship between small and great powers, where the needs of the former are not subsumed by the interests of the latter, from the interwar years to the start of World War II. In an era when the entire Pacific region was at war, the inability of a larger power to fulfill its side of a defensive pact with a smaller power shaped the future of the region itself.
