In 1924 the Royal Navy’s Special Service Squadron visited Australia and New Zealand. Ships involved: Battlecruisers under Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Field – HMS Hood (Captain John K Im Thurn) ...
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Letter: HMS Shropshire and Rex the mascot
The following email was recently received by our Research desk with a photograph of a handsome canine nattily decked out as a Leading Seaman Gunner with two Good Conduct Badges. ...
Letter: Recollection of an Admiral’s Barge
Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading Bill Burrell’s recollections of admirals’ barges (Naval Historical Review, December 2018). He errs, though, in referring to the Admiral Hudson as a barge: it’s a cabin ...
Victoria Crosses awarded to Civilians
An article in the December 2018 edition of this magazine on Victoria Crosses makes no mention of the award to civilian recipients, in particular two Mercantile Marine1officers. The following may ...
The Royal Australian Naval College’s debt to Admiral Creswell
The following article is based on an address by Robert Hyslop to the Canberra and District Historical Society which appeared in that Society’s journal of September 1986, and still relevant ...
