The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) Vice Admiral Mark Hammond AM,RAN. CN is also jointly responsible to the Minister of Defence (MINDEF) and the Chief of Defence Force (CDF). The Department of Defence as part of the Australian Public Service administers the ADF.
Vice Admiral Russell Edward Shalders,is a retired admiral of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). He served as Vice Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 2002 to 2005,and as Chief of Navy from 2005 to 2008.
Rear Admiral Sir David James Martin,was a senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy and later Governor of New South Wales. He also established the Sir David Martin Foundation to assist young Australians in crisis.
HMAS Creswell,is the training facility of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) that predominately includes The Royal Australian Naval College (RANC) as well as the School of Survivability and Ship's Safety,the Beecroft Weapons Range,an administrative support department and Training Ship Jervis Bay. It is located between Jervis Bay Village and Greenpatch,on the shores of Jervis Bay in the Jervis Bay Territory. The RANC has been the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Australian Navy since 1915.
HMAS Watson is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base on Sydney Harbour at South Head,near Watsons Bay in Sydney,Australia. Commissioned in 1945,the base served as the RAN's radar training school. In 1956,torpedo and anti-submarine warfare training were relocated to the base,and by 2011,Watson was the main maritime warfare training base,as well as providing post-entry education for maritime warfare officers,training for combat system and electronic warfare sailors,and command training.
Rear Admiral James Vincent Purcell Goldrick,was an Australian naval historian,analyst of contemporary naval and maritime affairs,and a senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Following his retirement from the RAN,Goldrick was a fellow at the Sea Power Centre –Australia and an adjunct professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He was also a member of the Naval Studies Group at the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society,an adjunct professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University and a professorial fellow of the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong. He was a visiting fellow at All Souls College,University of Oxford in the first half of 2015,and a non-resident Fellow of the Lowy Institute from 2013 to 2018.
Rear Admiral Kevin John Scarce,is a retired Royal Australian Navy officer who was the 34th Governor of South Australia,serving from August 2007 to August 2014. He was succeeded by Hieu Van Le,who had previously been his lieutenant governor. He was Chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 2014 to 2020.
Vice Admiral Russell Harry Crane,is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN),who served as the Chief of Navy from July 2008 until his retirement in June 2011.
Vice Admiral Matthew John Tripovich,is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy. He served as Chief Capability Development Group from 2007 until his retirement in October 2010.
Rear Admiral Davyd Rhys Thomas,is a retired senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
Rear Admiral Nigel Stephen Coates,was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
Rear Admiral Stephen Richard Gilmore,is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy. He served as Commander Australian Fleet from October 2009 until December 2011,and as the Head Australian Defence Staff (Washington) and Australian Defence Attachéat the Embassy of Australia,Washington,D.C. from January 2014 until his retirement in 2017.
Rear Admiral Trevor Norman Jones,is a retired senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). He served as Deputy Chief of Navy from 2011 to 2013,Head Military Strategic Commitments from April 2013 to December 2014,and the Commander Joint Task Force 633 from December 2014 to January 2016.
Vice Admiral Raymond James Griggs,is an Australian senior public servant and a former senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He served as Chief of Navy from June 2011 to June 2014,before being appointed Vice Chief of the Defence Force until his transfer to the reserve in July 2018.
Vice Admiral Peter David Jones,is a retired senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN),who served as the Chief Capability Development Group (CCDG) from 2011 until his retirement in October 2014. He was succeeded as CCDG by Lieutenant General John Caligari.
Vice Admiral Sir Alan Wedel Ramsay McNicoll,was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and a diplomat. Born in Melbourne,he entered the Royal Australian Naval College at the age of thirteen and graduated in 1926. Following training and staff appointments in Australia and the United Kingdom,he was attached to the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the Second World War. As torpedo officer of the 1st Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean theatre,McNicoll was decorated with the George Medal in 1941 for disarming enemy ordnance. He served aboard HMS King George V from 1942,sailing in support of several Arctic convoys and taking part in the Allied invasion of Sicily. McNicoll was posted for staff duties with the Admiralty from September 1943 and was involved in the planning of the Normandy landings. He returned to Australia in October 1944.
Vice Admiral Stuart Campbell Mayer,is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy. He joined the navy via the Royal Australian Naval College at HMAS Creswell in 1984 and qualified as a Principal Warfare Officer in 1994. He commanded HMAS Canberra (2002–04),HMAS Anzac (2007–09) and the International Stabilisation Force (2009–10),and deployed on operations to the Persian Gulf,East Timor,and the Arabian Sea during the Iraq War. He served as Commander Australian Fleet from 2014 to 2018,Head Force Design within the Vice Chief of Defence Force Group from 2018 to 2019,and Deputy Commander United Nations Command,based in South Korea,from 2019 to 2021. He retired from the navy in 2022 and was appointed a partner in Ernst &Young's consulting division.
Vice Admiral Robert Andrew Kevin Walls,was a senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). In 42 years of service,Walls commanded HMA Ships Tobruk,Moreton and Brisbane,and served as Deputy Chief of Naval Staff and Maritime Commander Australia,before his career culminated in his appointment as Vice Chief of the Defence Force from April 1995 until his retirement in March 1997.
Vice Admiral Jonathan Dallas Mead,is a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He joined the navy via the Royal Australian Naval College at HMAS Creswell in 1984,and spent his early career with the Clearance Diving Branch before training as a Principal Warfare Officer. He captained HMAS Parramatta on operations in the Persian Gulf from 2006 to 2007 during the Iraq War and commanded Combined Task Force 150,overseeing maritime counter-terrorism operations around the Arabian Peninsula and Horn of Africa,from 2011 to 2012. He served as Head of Navy Capability from 2015 to 2017,Commander Australian Fleet from 2018 to 2020,Chief of Joint Capabilities from 2020 to 2021,and was appointed Chief of the Nuclear-Powered Submarine Task Force in September 2021.
Vice Admiral Mark David Hammond,is a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN),serving as the Chief of Navy since July 2022. He joined the RAN as an electronics technician in 1986 and,after being accepted for officer training,graduated from the Australian Defence Force Academy in 1990. Much of Hammond's career has been spent in the Submarine Service. He has served on operations in the Indo-Pacific,commanded the Collins-class submarineHMAS Farncomb,was Deputy Chief of Navy from 2018 to 2020,and served as Commander Australian Fleet from November 2020 to June 2022. He succeeded Vice Admiral Michael Noonan as Chief of Navy on 6 July 2022.
