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Naval Hardware – Breech Loaders (Part2)

A.N. Other · Sep 28, 1981 ·

AFTER THE UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE of the Armstrong screw breech, a retrograde step was taken in returning to the Rifled Muzzle Loading system for the guns of both sea and land ...

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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 2)

Zammitt, Alan · Sep 25, 1981 ·

BY 1943 THE TIDE HAD TURNED against the Japanese and Australia was in action supporting landings at Arawe and Cape Gloucester in December of that year. In February 1944 Australia ...

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The Last Man on Anzac

A.N. Other · Jun 30, 1981 ·

THE HONOUR OF BEING THE LAST MAN on Anzac in 1915 seems to go to a naval rating, now living in Sydney. His name is Charlie Hooper, and this year ...

Naval Hardware – Breech Loaders (Part1)

A.N. Other · Jun 28, 1981 ·

WHEN NELSON FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR his ships, and those of the enemy, used guns that differed very little from those used by Drake to beat the Spanish Armada ...

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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 1)

Zammitt, Alan · Jun 25, 1981 ·

IN JUNE 1955 the ship’s company of HMAS Sydney fell in on the flight deck, and Captain George Oldham, DSC, RAN, presented to Vie Zammit, the ship’s canteen manager, a ...

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