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Book Review: Via Torres

Book reviewer · Sep 24, 1996 ·

Title: Via Torres Strait Author: Ian Nicholson Publisher: Roebuck Society Publication No. 48, Nambour, 1996 This book in the Roebuck Historical Series is a maritime history of the Torres Strait shipping ...

Q-ship sinks U-boat – HMS Stonecrop – 1917

Blackwood, Henry, Captain, RN · Sep 5, 1996 ·

Captain Downes’s talk in April this year highlighted the less exciting but nonetheless demanding aspects of “Q” ship operations. H.M.S. Stonecrop’s experience in WWI was quite different. Sadly, she herself ...

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Personalities – Able Seaman Thomas Bull (1882-1937)

Hobden, D.T. · Sep 5, 1996 ·

On the 4 October 1937, the ashes of the late Able Seaman Thomas Bull were committed to the deep from HMAS “AUSTRALIA”. At that time, the ship was hove to ...

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The Great Australian Naval Board Scandal of 1913

Cowman, Ian, Dr · Sep 5, 1996 ·

“The position of the Naval Board has not been satisfactory for some time …. On my taking office I soon discovered that this essential harmony was entirely absent, personal friction, ...

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The Naming of USS “Canberra” – 1942

Hobden, D.T. · Sep 5, 1996 ·

The following correspondence is self-evident and highlights the warm relationship between the USN and the RAN during WWII. Canberra Dated September 1, 1942 Recd 9:43 a.m., 2nd Secretary of State, ...

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