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HMAS Parramatta Silver Jubilee

Old, Commander R.H., RAN · Dec 13, 1986 ·

ON 4 JULY 1986 HMAS Parramatta celebrated her Silver Jubilee – 25 years service preserving the peace. The keel of the third warship to bear the name of the cradle ...

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RAN Formation – A Personal Memory

Feakes, Rear Admiral , CBE · Dec 11, 1986 ·

The following account of how the Royal Australian Navy was born was written by Rear Admiral H.J. Feakes, CBE almost fifty years ago. Feakes was an eyewitness to the great ...

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Williamstown Naval Dockyard – Part 2

Sullivan, John · Dec 11, 1986 ·

Vice President John Sullivan continues his story of HMA Dockyard, Williamstown, and in this article relates how the streets and thoroughfares received their names. ONE THING WHICH SURPRISED ME when ...

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Royal Australian Naval Operations 1914

Hinchliffe, L.M. · Sep 24, 1986 ·

I FEEL THAT THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY of the Royal Australian Navy should not be allowed to slip away without brief mention of the operations carried out by the Navy in ...

HMAS Condamine in Korea 1952-1953

Fazio, Lieut. V. RANEM · Sep 24, 1986 ·

CONDAMINE, one of four modified river class frigates (the others being Shoalhaven, Murchison and Culgoa) was built by the State Dockyard at Newcastle, NSW. Laid down on the 3rd of ...

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