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Book Review: The Collins Class Submarine Story

Book reviewer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

The Collins Class Submarine Story. By Peter Yule and Derek Woolner. Cambridge University Press (2008). ISBN – 13 978-0-521-86894-5 Reviewed by Tim Duchesne This enthralling and still controversial story is ...

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Book Review: Fairey Gannet in Service with the RAN Fleet Air Arm

Book reviewer · Dec 5, 2008 ·

Submarine Hunter – Fairey Gannet in Service with the RAN Fleet Air Arm. By Zbigniew (‘Ben’) Patynowski. Mushroom Model Publications, Redbourn (UK), 2008. 248pp. Profusely illustrated (b&w and colour) ISBN: ...

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Cannon Balls – Dispelling a Myth

A.N. Other · Dec 5, 2008 ·

In days of old, when muzzle-loading cannons constituted the main armament in ships of war, it was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannons. The ...

RANVR – The Forgotten Few

Wright, Ken · Dec 5, 2008 ·

When Hitler declared war on Great Britain in 1939, here in Australia, the Prime Minister Robert Menzies addressed the nation on 3 September: ‘Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty ...

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Leadership: Sir Ernest Shackleton – 1874-1922

Taylor, Megan, Midshipman, RAN · Dec 5, 2008 ·

‘Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.’ Ernest Shackleton, 1916 ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It ...

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