By Harry Adlam While watching the television coverage of the funeral of the late Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma a question arose in my mind. Why were the men of ...
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Extracts from the Diary of Leading Signalman G.A. Wakely – HMS Swiftsure
17th April 1908: Ship ordered to sea daybreak 18th. 18th April 1908: Sailed from Malta at 0400 and made speed of 12 knots but were soon ordered to increase to ...
New South Wales Naval Forces in 1901
WITH THE BASING of the Australian Squadron of the Royal Navy in Sydney, the State of New South Wales saw little need to raise a large naval force and turned ...
The Story of HMCS Protector
The Gift Fleet
The Gift Fleet – from the RN to Australia, 1919 WITH THE END OF THE GREAT WAR the Imperial Government found itself with a considerable number of naval vessels on ...
