Drake and his game of bowls and Nelson recalling a boat for a sailor’s letter are loved legends from long past wars. But legends also flow from the Golden Age ...
Operation Downfall
Regarding “The Century’s Greatest Untold Story” in Vol. 20, No. 4, although OPERATION DOWNFALL may have been top secret, it was generally known, even in the BPF, that an invasion ...
Operation Downfall – The invasion of Japan – a sequel
Almost as sensational as “OPERATION DOWNFALL” – the top-secret plan for the invasion of Japan as detailed in the last issue of Naval Historical Review (Vol. 20, No. 4) – ...
Obituary: Captain Barbara MacLeod AM
“To achieve the marvellous,” wrote Tom Robbins, “it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought”. When a 24 year-old school teacher from Capel in Western Australia went by train ...
Obituary: Captain Gerald Haynes
Captain Gerald Haynes’s wartime career combined skill and daring at sea and in the air. He was officer of the watch in HMS Victorious in the chase that destroyed the German ...
Letters – Australians at War documentary
The 1999-2000 Federal Budget provided $5 million for the production of a TV documentary series, Australians at War, which will cover the major conflicts in which Australia has participated, and ...
Letter – late LCDR Geoffrey Ingleton
Letters: Beattie of the St Nazaire raid
A small point that may be of interest to your readers (St Nazaire – The Greatest Commando Raid of WW II) is that Lieutenant Commander (as he then was) Beattie ...
Letters: Inquiry into the Loss of HMAS Sydney – Approaching unknown ship
I have read with great interest the article by IHN in NHR Vol. 19-4 [Dec. 1998] and the letters in Vo1.20-1 [March 1999] re the sad loss of HMAS Sydney. ...
Letters: Kings Park Guns
I refer to the article “Coastal Defence and the Kings Park Naval Guns” contained in Volume 20, No. 1, 1999[March 1999]. At the last paragraph the author gives his views ...
Letters: The Vung Tau Ferry
In your Book Review (Naval Historical Review, December 1998) of ‘The Vung Tau Ferry – HMAS Sydney and Escort Ships, Vietnam 1965-72’, your reviewer mentions a story he heard about ...
Letters – Queen Mary & HMAS Voyager Averted Collision, April 1942
Dear Sir I refer to the article “Abandoned at Sea” in The Review, September 1998. [Ed: Retitled SS Queen Mary and the Loss of HMS Curacoa 1942] There is another incident ...
Letters: St Nazaire Raid
Your article on the story of the St. Nazaire raid – “[The raid on St Nazaire 1942]” – left me rather amused. In the first instance the ship mentioned should ...
Letters – Location of Sensuikan 1-124
Concerning the Japanese submarine I-124 (Sensuikan I-124 by Tom Lewis and reviewed by T.R. Duchesne – NHR Vol. 19 No.2), its wreck is shown on the approaches to Darwin chart ...
Letters – Sinking of Royal Oak
I was most interested to read the account in the Naval Historical Review of June 1998 of the sinking of the British battleship Royal Oak. I was in command of ...
Letters – The Senior Service
Which Service Came First? “Snow” Mackrell, a member, has forwarded some correspondence concerning his contention that the Navy is the “Senior Service” as, “after Federation, it was the Navy which ...
Letters – HMAS Brisbane oil
I refer to your request on page 3 of the June 1998 issue of the Naval Historical Review for information about the nature of the oil carried by HMAS Brisbane. ...
Letters – Royal Navy Trawlers
I noticed in a past issue some correspondence from member J. Simm, J.P. regarding RN trawlers named after the cricketers `Bradman’ and ‘Hammond’. There were a number of trawlers so ...
Letters: Astern Refuelling: HMAS Brisbane (1)
Re Naval Historical Review December 1997: HMAS BRISBANE The photograph of HMAS BRISBANE shows the ship under way and fuelling by the astern method. The tanker in this case is almost certainly ...
Letters – Quickmatch and Chapel Windows
I have received the March 1997 issue of the “Naval Historical Review”, which I am glad to note is up to the usual high standard. I would like to comment on ...
Letters: Ashes of Captain Ian McDonald
This is a letter from Mrs. I.H. McDonald (Widow of the late Captain I.H. McDonald RAN – N.H.S. “Review” March 1997) to the Maritime Commander Australia. Rear Admiral C. A. ...
Letters: Harmony at sea
The article in the last issue of N.H.R. Vol. 17, No. 4, (Harmony at Sea) (December 1996) about the employment of women sailors at sea (R.A.N.) was not only revealing ...
Obituary: Commodore E E Johnston AO AM OBE
Letters: our First Rear Admiral – Dumaresq or King?
The September 1996 issue carries an interesting story about Rear Admiral J. S. Dumaresq, CB, CVO on page 17. The article says “He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1921, ...
Letters – Chapel Windows – what about Quickmatch?
The September 1996 issue of the `Navy Review’ proudly displays the glass windows depicting the `V’ & `W’, `N’, and Tribal Class destroyers, and rightly so. But, as a past crewman ...