A Naval History of Interwar Naval Arms Control
PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, 2017.
Publications
Published research and other material relating principally to naval history, naval arms control and warship transfers.
Above Water Torpedo Tubes
The Chough, Spring 2026, pp16-18.
The Washington Naval Conference, 1922
Part 1, The Chough, Spring 2022, pp21-22; Part 2, Summer 2022, pp21-22; and Part 3, Winter 2022, pp14-16.
The Sale of ex-US Warships to Canada in 1930-31
Argonauta, Vol. 38, No. 1, Winter 2021, pp20-21.
The Greece-Turkey Naval Protocol of 1930
Warship International, Vol. 58, No. 3, September 2021, pp193-198.
Treaty's Speed Limit
Naval History, Vol. 35, No. 1, February 2021, p4.
The 1936 London Naval Treaty
Warship International, Vol. 57, No. 3, September 2020, pp197-198.
Some Mexican attempts to procure ex-USN cruisers
Warships, No. 200, December 2020, pp92-95.
Foreign Warships transferred to Spain during the Spanish Civil War
Warships, No. 199, July 2020, pp40-42.
The ex-French cruisers D'Entrecasteaux and Desaix
Warships, No. 198, March 2020, pp41-44 (with Dr D. Stoker).
The transfer of ex-HMS Havant to Siam
World Ship Society: Warships, No. 197, November 2019, pp12-15.
A 1937 US proposal to lease destroyers to the Latin American Republics
World Ship Society: Warships, No. 196, August 2019, pp12-17.
The Impact of International Conventions on efforts to address people smuggling into Australia
Journal of the Australian Naval Institute, Vol. 28, No 1, Autumn 2002.
Admiral Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa – A Study in Command and Leadership
Journal of the Australian Defence Colleges Association, June 2002.
An Essay on Admiral Souchon – The Man who changed the World
WW1 Document Archive, www.gwpda.org/naval/souchonz.htm.
Uncovering Past US submarine Exports
Janes Defence Weekly, 4 June 1994.
Hood Down Under: A guide to Archival Records in Australasia relating to the Battle Cruiser H.M.S. Hood
Booklet published in conjunction with the Naval Historical Society of Australia, 2006.
Conference Papers and Presentations
Bargaining for Battleships - The Washington Naval Treaty 1922
Paper presented to the NSW Military History Society, Sydney, 5 July 2025.
The Anglo-German Naval Agreements of 1935 and 1937
Paper presented at the McMullin Naval History Symposium, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 21 September 2023.
Interwar Naval Arms Control – the Myth of Democratic Compliance
Paper presented at the Naval and Maritime Power in Two World Wars Conference, Greenwich Maritime Institute, 11 April 2014.
Anglo-American Naval Relations after the Great War
Paper presented at the Trafalgar Day Conference, Centre for Maritime Policy, University of Wollongong, 21 October 2005.