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Background to Names and Words to Describe Ships and Boats

Lancaster, John · Mar 5, 1996 ·

(‘He that would go to sea for pleasure, would go to hell for a pastime.’ Old proverb.) It is sometimes difficult for Guides to explain to the public that we ...

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Letters: Commander Wojciech Francki

Letter Writer · Mar 5, 1996 ·

Thank you very much indeed for your letter and a copy of the “Naval Historical Review”. I found the interview with Commander Wojciech Francki (the spelling of his name is ...

Letters: Tribal Elders Approve Retention of “Warramunga”

Letter Writer · Mar 3, 1996 ·

The following correspondence is self-explanatory. It is believed that the decision for the visit of the “Elders” of The Warramunga Veterans Association to Tennant Creek was made after the South ...

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Australians in the Royal Naval Air Service 1914-1918 (Part 2a)

Stevens, Errol · Mar 2, 1996 ·

R.A. LITTLE DSO,* DSC,* C de G. (1895 -1918) Robert Alexander Little is almost unknown in his native Australia as he served in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in ...

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Submarine Sinks Battleship – Holbrook VC

Weston, Bert E. · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Commander Norman Douglas Holbrook VC, who won the first Victoria Cross to be gazetted in the Royal Navy in WWI, for his exploit in sinking the Turkish battleship MESSOUDIEH, inside the Sea ...

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