THE LAST QUARTER of the 19th century saw a wild scramble by the European powers to annex unclaimed islands in the Pacific. During this period ships of the Russian, Austrian, ...
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Christmas in the RAN 1944
Christmas 1944 was celebrated in a variety of ways and under widely differing conditions in the RAN. Here are just a few recorded by C. Hermion Gill. THERE WERE, HOWEVER, ...
Commissioned for 69 Days-HMAS Boonaroo
Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE, CB, DLJP 1872-1949
New South Wales Naval Forces
This article appeared in The Navy and Army Illustrated dated 15th October 1897. The New South Wales Naval Brigade was the least developed of the Colonial Navies for the obvious ...