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Book Review: Abide With Me – The HMAS Voyager Tragedy

Kingsley Perry · Mar 23, 2024 ·

Abide With Me – The HMAS Voyager Tragedy by Elizabeth McCarthy This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the collision between HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager off the New South ...

Book Review: Gordon’s Nuggets: The Principles of War and How They Help in Love, Life & Work.

Book reviewer · Mar 6, 2024 ·

Gordon’s Nuggets: The Principles of War and How They Help in Love, Life & Work by Gordon Ramsay.The book is now available through the Society’s website shop and all good booksellers. ...

HMS Hood and the Special Service Squadron in Australia 20 February 1924 to 20 April 1924

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Graeme Lunn John Brown and Company laid down the keel for a battlecruiser in September 1916 that would become the Royal Navy’s epitome of firepower, speed and grace during ...

A Naval Family: The Hixsons

Haken, J.K., Dr · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Dr J.K. Haken While the Hixson family is well recorded in colonial naval history, that of one member, Edward Manwell Hixson who went to Queensland, has only recently come ...

The Secret of the Battle of Sunda Strait: Secret Japanese Ship Sunk by Friendly Fire

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

By Rohan Goyne The Battle of Sunda Strait is remembered for the loss of the allied cruisers USS Houston and HMAS Perth in a confused night action in the Sunda ...

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