Description
Title: An Outline of Australian Navy History
Author:
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1976
ISBN: 0642022550
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 90 pages
Comments: A history of the Royal Australian Navy up to 1976.
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces. Originally intended for local defence, the navy was granted the title of ‘Royal Australian Navy’ in 1911, and became increasingly responsible for defence of the region.
Britain’s Royal Navy continued to support the RAN and provide additional blue-water defence capability in the Pacific up to the early years of World War II. Then, rapid wartime expansion saw the acquisition of large surface vessels and the building of many smaller warships. In the decade following the war, the RAN acquired a small number of aircraft carriers, the last of these paying off in 1982.
From the library of the late Brigadier Ian Bryant AM. His signature is on the half title page.
