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Royal New Zealand Navy’s Fairmile Patrol Craft (Part 1)

Cassells, Ken · Jun 11, 1991 ·

At the beginning of World War II the principal threat to shipping in New Zealand waters was perceived as the German raider, Lessons learned during the Great War pointed to ...

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Obituary: Commodore ARL Lindsey, AM VRD RD RANR (RET)

A.N. Other · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Commodore Lindsey was the first Australian Reserve Officer to reach Flag Rank. He was only 51 when he died but had had a rewarding life both in the R.A.N. Reserve ...

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Obituary: Captain H M Newcomb

A.N. Other · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Captain Harvey Mansfield Newcomb R.N. (Ret) and also R.A.N. (Ret) was born in Kidderminster in England on 18th September, 1899. He was educated at Bedford School and entered the Royal ...

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Letters: A South Atlantic Incident

Letter Writer · Jun 11, 1991 ·

I wish to make the following correction to my article ”A SOUTH ATLANTIC INCIDENT” published in the September, 1990 edition of the Naval Historical Review. An ex Communicator might be forgiven ...

Profile of Vice Admiral I.D.G. MacDougall, A.O.

A.N. Other · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Vice Admiral MacDougall accepted our invitation to be patron of the Society when he succeeded Admiral Hudson as Chief of Naval Staff on 8th March, 1991. His curriculum vitae follows: ...

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