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The Northern Patrol

Gillett, Ross · Dec 28, 1981 ·

A MAJOR PROBLEM faced by Australian missions and pearling interests in the years prior to the outbreak of the Pacific war in December 1941 was the multitude of Japanese fishing ...

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The Fletcher Class Destroyers

NHSA Webmaster · Dec 28, 1981 ·

IN HIS BOOK “DESTROYERS“, Antony Preston refers to the Fletchers as ‘The Magnificent Fletchers’, and this is a very fitting description indeed. One would have to be an absolute bigot ...

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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 3)

Zammitt, Alan · Dec 25, 1981 ·

THE AUSTRALIA CONTINUED HER REFIT at Garden Island until May 1947. The ship’s company was greatly reduced, but there was always a reasonable number living on board. Harry Adlam left ...

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Formation of the Royal New Zealand Navy

Tonson, A.E. · Sep 28, 1981 ·

TO UNDERSTAND how the Royal New Zealand Navy came into being it is necessary to look back to World War I and the preceding years, and to follow through the ...

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NZS Amokura – New Zealand’s First Training Ship

A.N. Other · Sep 28, 1981 ·

LITTLE IS KNOWN in Australia of Amokura, being a training ship operated by the New Zealand Government from 1905 until 1921, but by her former name of HMS Sparrow she ...

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