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The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 5

Lind, L.J. · Dec 4, 1990 ·

Bequests The Society and the Garden Island Museum have benefitted over the years from bequests from former members. A particularly interesting selection of books and papers were received by the ...

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The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 3

Lind, L.J. · Dec 3, 1990 ·

Old Sydney Town Returning to the Society, in 1973 an approach had been made to us by Fox and Associates, Architects for advice and assistance on their historical project on ...

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The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 4

Lind, L.J. · Dec 3, 1990 ·

Garden Island The success of the Society owed much to Garden Island Naval Dockyard. Not only was it the birthplace of the Society but, in a way, it was the ...

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The Naval Historical Society – 20 years on – Part 2

Lind, L.J. · Dec 3, 1990 ·

1972 – Continued growth During 1972 I pursued ways and means to achieve our other project, the salvaging of the bow and stern section of HMAS PARRAMATTA at Brooklyn. My ...

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Recollections of founding the Naval Historical Society

Churchill, Peter, Lieutenant Commander, RN (Rtd) · Dec 3, 1990 ·

In 1970 Lew Lind, Rod Atwill, Alan Payne and myself found ourselves with the responsibility of putting together an association which we were to call the Naval Historical Society. There were ...

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