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Occasional Paper 146: Early Naval Training

Gillett, Ross · Oct 1, 2022 ·

HMAS Tingira, Physical Training Class, Naval Heritage Collection image #7988

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Occasional Paper 134: A Long Salty Voyage Home – The Delivery of Victoria’s First Torpedo Boat H.M.V.S. Childers

Gillett, Ross · Apr 1, 2022 ·

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Occasional Paper 123: Royal Australian Navy 75th Anniversary Year: 1986

Gillett, Ross · Sep 25, 2021 ·

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The First Hundred Years

Gillett, Ross · Jun 14, 2011 ·

We gratefully acknowledge the following article which is taken from the author’s new book “Australia’s Fighting Ships”, published in April 2011 by Topmill Pty Ltd. On 10 July 2011 the ...

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River Class Frigates in the RAN – a Brief History

Gillett, Ross · Dec 4, 2007 ·

This article first appeared in The Australian Warship Review, Vol. 4/1999. From 1961 to 1998, varying numbers of the long-serving Type 12 (or River class) antisubmarine frigates served in the ...

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Australia’s First Warship – The Torpedo Boat Acheron

Gillett, Ross · Mar 31, 2003 ·

Which was Australia’s first ‘real’ warship is a question often asked by naval historians. Today, what colony you originally came from or where you now reside, could be important elements ...

Book Review: Nelson to Vanguard

Gillett, Ross · Mar 30, 2001 ·

Title: Nelson to Vanguard, Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 Author: D.K. Brown Publisher: Chatham Publishing Nelson to Vanguard, Warship Design and Development 1923-1945 is the final volume in a three ...

HMAS Jervis Bay II announced

Gillett, Ross · Mar 19, 2000 ·

On 25 April 1999, the Minister for Defence, John Moore, announced that the Australian Defence Force would be boosted by the lease of a locally built, high speed catamaran to ...

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The Northern Patrol

Gillett, Ross · Dec 28, 1981 ·

A MAJOR PROBLEM faced by Australian missions and pearling interests in the years prior to the outbreak of the Pacific war in December 1941 was the multitude of Japanese fishing ...

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Burra Bra — Ferry and Warship

Gillett, Ross · Mar 23, 1981 ·

A SLEEK PASSENGER FERRY for the Sydney to Manly service was launched at the shipyards of Morts Dock & Engineering Co. Ltd., Woolwich, New South Wales, on 17th June 1908. ...

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