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Kelly of the Fighting Fifth Flotilla – A brief history of HMS Kelly

Kelly, Michael J · Sep 7, 1978 ·

‘I NAME THIS SHIP KELLY. May God guide her and guard her and keep all who sail in her’. These words, spoken by Miss Antonia Kelly, were to become so ...

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Fateful Encounter – Sydney and Kormoran

Holmes, L.F. · Sep 7, 1978 ·

IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL NOVEMBER DAY bathed in warm sunshine and visibility in that part of the Indian Ocean was in Captain Detmers’ own words ‘perfect.’ Approaching Shark Bay south ...

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HMS Illustrious – the first armoured aircraft carrier

Payne, Alan · Jun 7, 1978 ·

THE ORDER FOR THE HERMES – the first British carrier designed as such – was placed in July 1917, and later in the year the Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane, then ...

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HMAS Psyche – 1915

Ricketts, D C · Jun 7, 1978 ·

Mr. Dudley Ricketts was trained in HMAS Tingira and then sent to Williamstown Naval Depot in Victoria in January, 1915, to await draft to a sea going ship. That ship ...

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Captain Steve Arliss RN and HMAS Napier

Becher, O.H., CBE, DSO, DSC, Rear Admiral · Jun 7, 1978 ·

This thumbnail sketch of Captain Steve Arliss, Captain (D), 7th Destroyer Flotilla was prepared by the late Rear-Admiral Becher as a helpful guidance for the Society’s history of the N ...

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