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Disaster at Bari

Barton, Alan · Jun 20, 2000 ·

Mustard gas in World War II? Let me tell you of the happenings at Bari in Italy on the evening of 2 December 1943. Bari had recently become the main ...

Book Review: Very Ordinary Officer

Book reviewer · Jun 19, 2000 ·

Very Ordinary Officer  describes itself on the cover as the social and naval story of a Yorkshire-born Australian called Geoff Feasey. The two strands of the story run side by ...

Letters – Loss of sea language

Letter Writer · Mar 19, 2000 ·

Sir, Reading Roger Puttman’s letter (NHR 20-2) and his shared complaint concerning the loss of sea language put me in mind of an incident aboard Quiberon during Arch Harrington’s command ...

Letter – The discovery of AE2

Jarrett, Hugh · Mar 19, 2000 ·

Dear Sirs, I read Mark Spencer’s article… “The Discovery of the AE2 – a WW1 Submarine” with great interest and agree that it is a story largely unknown in this ...

Royal Navy Field Gun Competitions

Letter Writer · Mar 19, 2000 ·

Dear Sir, The attached article from the British International Express about the future of Field Gun competitions in the RN should interest many of our members who have taken part ...

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