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Adding to the Routine!

Thomson, Max · Jun 21, 1990 ·

The Human Side of the War at Sea… Backgrounded by years and years of experience, day to day life on a warship of the RAN – even in wartime – ...

A Visit to Piraeus, Greece 1941

Bracegirdle, Warwick, DSC, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Jun 21, 1990 ·

After the naval battle of Matapan most of the fleet returned to Alexandria to replenish supplies. Two cruisers of the 7th Cruiser Squadron HMS Ajax and HMAS Perth did not ...

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The RAN’s Forgotten War Dead

Swinden, Greg · Jun 21, 1990 ·

In 1987 while posted to Canberra, I visited the Australian War Memorial on several occasions. On one visit I noticed what appeared to me to be several omissions on the ...

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Not the Dockyard Please

Rivett, Norman C · Jun 20, 1990 ·

I read M.A. Head’s article Up With a Bang, NHR December 1989, with interest, including the quote from the fictitious Commander James Bond, RN. For a number of logical reasons, ...

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RAN Frigates – the versatile warship

Thomson, Max · Jun 19, 1990 ·

When the name frigate was introduced into the RAN on November 18, 1943 with the commissioning of HMAS GASCOYNE, its ship’s company could not in its wildest dreams have envisaged ...

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