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The Great Depression and the Navy

Nicholls, Bob · Jun 14, 2011 ·

The worldwide Global Financial Crisis which originated in the United States in 2007 and the Australian reaction to it is still fresh in most peoples’ minds. The description of the ...

The ‘Highball’ bomb/mine

Nicholls, Bob · Sep 10, 2010 ·

Narellan, south west of Sydney, is the site, at the local airport, of the Camden Museum of Aviation, which houses a collection of some 22 vintage aircraft. One of these ...

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American Plans for Invading New Zealand & Australia – Part2

Nicholls, Bob · Mar 14, 2003 ·

The first part of this article, which appeared in the December 2002 edition, reviewed American plans for the invasion of Auckland and Sydney. This part considers plans for Melbourne and ...

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American Plans for Invading New Zealand & Australia – Part1

Nicholls, Bob · Dec 14, 2002 ·

Preposterous, you say. Not necessarily so. It sometimes seems that the ‘Special Relationship’ between Great Britain (and thus, until quite recently, by extension, Australia) and the United States has existed ...

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Book Review: Pioneers of the Royal Australian Navy

Nicholls, Bob · Sep 10, 2002 ·

Title: Pioneers of the Royal Australian Navy Author: Lofty Batt Publisher: Naval Historical Society of Australia (Inc) [Ed: The Society recently published this book] New Zealander Lofty Batt joined the Royal Navy’s ...

Figureheads – A Short History

Nicholls, Bob · Sep 10, 2002 ·

A figurehead (or more correctly figure head was a carved figure, usually human but quite often animal, fixed to a ship’s stem high in the box, just beneath the bowsprit. ...

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