By Greg Swinden New status quo Following the end of the Great War, and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the area known as Palestine was allocated to Great Britain ...
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HMAS SWAN to SHANGHAI
The 1981 trials of the ‘heavenly duck’ by Max Sulman During the 1970s there was a gradual easing of tension between China and the West. There were cautious overtures ...
Old timer HMAS Krait
Three views of the Second World War Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) vessel Krait. The following description is from the Australian War Memorial website: “Operation Jaywick was a raid on shipping ...
Names and Numbers
by Dr. Joe Straczek They’re called hull numbers, others call them pendant numbers, some refer to them as pennant numbers. During the first one hundred years of the Royal Australian ...
US Coast Guard ‘Polar Star’: Veteran sails on
The US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star (WAGB 10) has visited Sydney and many other Australian ports numerous times across her 49-year career. She was commissioned in 1976 as a ...