Today Taylors Bay, located between Bradleys Head and Chowder Head, in Sydney Harbour is a very peaceful spot with a beautiful little secluded beach and anchored boats bobbing on the water. In 1942 it is what was bobbing under the water that brought Taylors Bay into the limelight. Continue reading “Taylors Bay and The Midget Submarines”
The Aircraft and ANZAC Halls at the Australian War Memorial are especially built additions to the main War Memorial building to house the Memorial’s larger exhibits. Continue reading “Aircraft and ANZAC Halls – Australian War Memorial”
Not least due to its location, Australia’s first and only direct enemy attacks in its history (leaving aside recent terrorist activity) were in World War II – the Japanese bombing of Darwin in the Northern Territory and their attack on Sydney Harbour using midget submarines. Continue reading “M22 and the Japanese Attack on Sydney Harbour”
Making your way from the Garden Island Wharf towards the RAN Heritage Centre you will encounter, by the shore on your left, memorials to HMA Submarine AE1 and HMA Submarine AE2 and the bow of HMAS Parramatta. Continue reading “Memorials to Australia’s First Submarines”
The arrival of the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) fleet into Sydney Harbour on 4 October 1913 was a great moment in Australian history. Australia now had direct control of the seas around the continent and no longer had to rely on the British Royal Navy. Continue reading “HMAS AE1 Memorial (…’the ocean bed their tomb’)”
The Rambling Wombat 