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The Day the Emden Came A-Calling

Rahman, Shukor · Mar 24, 1986 ·

(Reprinted by permission of Penang New Sunday Times, October 28, 1984) On October 28, 1914 – exactly 70 years ago today – most of the people of Penang were still ...

The Acceptance of the Second HMAS Voyager into Her Majesty’s Service

Acceptance Booklet · Mar 9, 1986 ·

(Reprinted from the Acceptance Booklet issued in 1957) ACCEPTANCE INTO HER MAJESTY’S SERVICE OF HMAS VOYAGER by The Minister of State for the Navy The Honourable C.W. Davidson, OBE, MP ...

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Sailing Ship Apprentice to Captain of the ‘Queens’

Thomson, Max · Mar 9, 1986 ·

MANY AN AUSSIE SERVICEMAN carved his initials on the wooden guardrail of the massive troopship Queen Mary. Indeed, when she was finally converted back to a luxury trans-Atlantic liner after ...

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HMAS Melbourne – As it Was, a Bird’s Eye View

Cluley, R · Dec 9, 1985 ·

BOARDING THE CARRIER MELBOURNE for the first time it was all so baffling. The ship is so huge and her geography so complex I was continually lost as I wandered ...

Sirius, HMS – Wreckage Recovered from First Fleet Flagship

A.N. Other · Dec 9, 1985 ·

Divers continue the search for Sirius remains FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIVES in the wreck-strewn waters off Norfolk Island an Australian Bicentennial project is slowly piecing together the final chapter in the ...

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