Dear Lex, This will most certainly surprise you but will no doubt bring you peace of mind when I explain this epistle to you. Just one month ago I was ...
Letters: A South Atlantic Incident
I wish to make the following correction to my article ”A SOUTH ATLANTIC INCIDENT” published in the September, 1990 edition of the Naval Historical Review. An ex Communicator might be forgiven ...
Letters: Attack on HMAS Australia
Having read the various accounts of the dawn attack on HMAS Australia on 21st October 1944, as contained in the Society’s publications, may I submit the following observation on the ...
Letter – Timor 1942
I read with interest John Leggoe’s report in the June edition of Naval Historical Review of the naval operations in support of the Australian commandos fighting in Timor 1942-43. To ...
Ships attacked/sunk – WW2 enemy action on east coast of Australia
SHIP DATE HOW ATTACKED/SUNK CAMBRIDGE* 07.11.40 STRUCK GERMAN MINE NE COAST VIC. CITY OF RAYVILLE* 08.11.40 STRUCK GERMAN MINE NE COAST VIC. NIMBIN* 29.11.40 STRUCK GERMAN MINE OFF PT. ...
Letters – 1942 Timor Operations
I was most interested to read in the latest issue of the ‘Naval Historical Bulletin’ that at the March meeting of the Society there is to be a talk by ...
Letters – HMAS SYDNEY-KORMORAN
Bryan Clark’s article titled ‘Australia’s Forgotten Son’ (Naval Historical Review, December, 1989) was excellent reading. Brian and I have had a good number of dealings relating to the loss of ...
Letters – Operational Snakecraft
On reading the recent publication “Fair Winds to Australia”, author Mr Lew Lind, and subsequent article regarding Services Reconnaissance Department in Naval Historical Review (December 1988), I feel obliged to inform Mr ...
Letters – Censorship
Letters – Recollections of HMAS Adelaide
The current “Review” asks for any information relating to the original HMAS ADELAIDE which may be useful in compiling a book of facts to be presented to the present day ...
Letter – Bustler and Kangaroo
Recently while cruising the Parramatta River, a detour into Homebush Bay proved quite interesting. I had intended to photograph the tug “Bustler” which lies derelict there. Alongside Bustler is what ...
Letters – Correction to Italian Navy Pictorial
The March 1983 issue of `Naval Historical Review’ featured an article on the Italian Navy which I found quite fascinating. I would query, however, the picture of the `Venezia’ (ex ...
Letters – Cradle of the RAN
Williamstown may have been the cradle of the Victorian Naval Forces and the Commonwealth Naval Forces, but there seems little doubt that from the inception of Australia’s own Naval Forces ...
Letters – ‘Detail Action’
The poem “Detail Action” in the March issue, and which you state may have been attributed to “Gatey” Crawford, was in fact written by Gerald O’Driscoll, R.N. Under the name ...
Letters – HMAS Pioneer as a Midshipman
Early in 1914 1 did an extended period of training in HMAS Pioneer, as a Midshipman RANR. One Saturday in April, 1914, when Pioneer was in Corio Bay to give weekend ...