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Navy Blue Anzacs – The RAN in the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign

Swinden, Greg · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Mention Gallipoli to any Australian and they will immediately think of bronzed ANZACs storming ashore at ANZAC Cove on 25th April 1915, Simpson and his donkey evacuating wounded, or the ...

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Report:HMAS Sydney II-Possible and probable causes of loss

A.N. Other · Mar 1, 1996 ·

The Department of Marine Archaeology, Western Australia has produced a Report No. 104, by W.J. Olsen, investigating the possible and probable causes of the loss of H.M.A.S. “SYDNEY”. It is ...

Commander Wojceich Franki – Polish Navy (Rtd)

William F. Cook, MVO, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Dec 31, 1995 ·

On 1 March, just a few weeks before his 92nd birthday, I had a long and most interesting discussion with Commander Franki, late of the Polish Navy. Although crippled with ...

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Australians in the Royal Naval Air Service 1914-1918 (Part 1)

Stevens, Errol · Dec 31, 1995 ·

[Ed:Permission to reproduce this article in part or as a whole must be obtained from the Society.] INTRODUCTION A very neglected area of Australian Naval history is the contribution made by ...

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The Athenian Trireme – Design and History

Bowen, L · Dec 29, 1995 ·

In very early times in the Mediterranean the open and oar propelled fighting ship was the Galley. At the time of the siege of Troy the normal large Greek rowing vessel ...

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