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Book Review: HMAS Murchison

Fazio, Lieut. V. RANEM · Sep 10, 2002 ·

Title: HMAS Murchison – Baron of the Han Author: Robert E Capes Publisher: Naval Historical Society of Australia (Inc) [Ed: The Society recently published this book] This book was written ...

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 ...

Operation Pedestal – 60th Anniversary

Ministry of Defence (UK) · Sep 10, 2002 ·

15th August 2002 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival in Malta of the Pedestal convoy, delivering at heavy cost the critical supplies that saved the island from having to ...

Stamps Honour British and French Explorers of New Holland

Australia Post · Sep 10, 2002 ·

Amid the rivalry of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815), France and Britain sponsored voyages of discovery to complete the charting of the Australian coastline and further scientific knowledge ...

RANVR Yachtsmen in World War II

Germaine, Max, OAM, Lieutenant, RANVR · Sep 10, 2002 ·

On that fateful Sunday 3rd September 1939 when England declared war on Germany, an angry Hitler in messages to his army in the west and the German people, called the ...

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