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The Torpedoing of HMAS Hobart 1942

Parker, R.G., OBE, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Dec 25, 1978 ·

Also published as Occasional Paper 157, March 2023 I JOINED HMAS HOBART at Brisbane in September 1942 as the Commander (E), relieving Commander (E) A.D. Cairns, who had been in ...

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Quiberon and a Deep U-boat – 1942

Max Darling, RANVR · Dec 25, 1978 ·

HMAS QUIBERON, brand new but already bomb scarred while under construction at Cowes, Isle of Wight, was commissioned on 6 July 1942. Of the crew, the Royal Navy contributed the ...

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Japanese Battle-cruiser Kongo

Payne, Alan · Dec 25, 1978 ·

IN 1905 JAPAN, WITH HER VICTORY over the Russian Pacific and Baltic Fleets, had become the major naval power in the Pacific. When HMS Dreadnought was launched in February 1906, ...

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The Ottoman Navy

Grazebrook, A.W., Lietutenant Commander · Sep 7, 1978 ·

IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING their conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Turks had dominated the Mediterranean with their fleets of galleys. For a hundred years they had raged unchecked, subjugating ...

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The Infamous Conduct of Captain William Case and the crew of HMS

A.N. Other · Sep 7, 1978 ·

ON 26 NOVEMBER 1812 HMS Samarang, sloop-of-war commanded by Captain William Case, arrived at Port Jackson from Madras with a quantity of specie in dollars for the use of the ...

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