Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Vice Admiral C.A. Ritchie, AO, RAN

Contributors xii

Illustrations and figures xxi

Abbreviations xxiii

Acknowledgements xxvi

Introduction: the Navy and the birth of the nation - David Stevens and John Reeve1

Part I Concepts and contexts 9

1 The Navy for the nation: a shared responsibility - George Baer11

2 The Royal Navy in the Pacific: sea power and imperial endeavour - Geoffrey Till 23

3 'The last word in outward splendour': the cult of the Navy and the imperial age - Jan R+#252;ger 48

Part II The Navy and the nation 67

4 Naval medicine and the European settlement of Australia - Neil Westphalen 69

5 The search for a strategic sea-base and the founding of Australia - Tom Frame 84

6 The long triangulation: naval hydrography and the Great Barrier Reef, 1848-1973 - Colin Jones 108

7 Our land is girt by sea: popular depictions of naval imagery in the national press, 1908-1918 - Robert Crawford 123

8 The Royal Australian navy in Au

About the Author

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.