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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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Figureheads – A Short History

Nicholls, Bob · Sep 10, 2002 ·

A figurehead (or more correctly figure head was a carved figure, usually human but quite often animal, fixed to a ship’s stem high in the box, just beneath the bowsprit. ...

HMS Byron and the Surrender of U-1009 at the End of WW2

Whitehouse, John · Sep 10, 2002 ·

U.1009 was a Type VIIC, the standard operational U Boat, and although there were bigger, faster boats at sea at the time these were comparatively few in number. U.1009 was ...

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Memorial: HMAS Canberra lost at the Battle of Savo Island

Sinfield, Peter · Sep 10, 2002 ·

Their Excellencies the Governor-General the Right Reverend Doctor Peter Hollingworth AC OBE and Mrs Hollingworth attended the 60th anniversary, Memorial Service in Canberra to commemorate the loss of the first ...

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