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Coal Ship — A Memory

Stevens, Cliff · Mar 5, 1982 ·

COALING SHIP is now a thing of the past, a forgotten evolution, but fifty years ago it was a much too frequent task. In this story, Cliff Stevens recalls the ...

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Spitfire – The First Australian Built Warship

Straczek, J.H., Sub-Lieutenant, RAN · Dec 31, 1981 ·

SINCE THE FORMATION of the Royal Australian Navy in 1911 hundreds of Australian built ships have served under the White Ensign, ships ranging in size and types from small Channel ...

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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