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Battles and operations

HMAS Bass: The Thin White (and Buff-coloured) Line

Howland, Tony · Jun 3, 2006 ·

It was early 1964. I recall it was a Sunday. Darwin dozed through a typical Wet Season day – humidity ‘off the clock high’, stinking hot, ‘suicide weather’ the locals ...

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Rushcutter Graduates in the Battle of the Atlantic

Worledge, Ray · Jun 3, 2006 ·

Editor’s Note:  The full text of Ray’s article described the evolution of HMAS Rushcutter as the Australian A/S School in 1938/39, and the training of both officers and sailors in A/S Warfare equipment ...

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Book Review: Forgotten Fleet 2

Book reviewer · Mar 18, 2006 ·

Forgotten Fleet 2 By Bill and Ruth Lunney Forfleet Publishing, Medowie NSW 2318. ISBN 0 9751683 0 4. rrp $50.00 plus $8.00 p&p. Available from the publisher at 7 Wade ...

Book Review: Jack Aubrey triple pack

Book reviewer · Mar 12, 2006 ·

Jack Aubrey Commands – An Historical Companion to the Naval Work of Patrick O’Brian By Brian Lavery Patrick O’Brian’s Navy – The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey’s World Richard O’Neill ...

The Kelly Story

Wright, Ken · Mar 3, 2006 ·

2 April 1937 Kelly began her life as Job number 615 at the R. & W. Hawthorn/Leslie & Company Limited shipyard at Hebburn-on-Tyne, Newcastle. She and her sister ship 614 ...

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Remembering “Hec’ – Captain H Waller RAN

Garrard, Richard Noel (Jerry) , RANR · Mar 3, 2006 ·

Captain ‘Hec’ Waller DSO and Bar RAN Captain ‘D’ of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean 1939 to 1941 A personal appreciation of By Richard Noel (Jerry) Garrard, S3376 RANR ...

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Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka and his famous ‘Tokyo Express’

Dunne, Mike · Mar 3, 2006 ·

Admired by friend and foe alike for his exploits as commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Destroyer Squadron 2, Tanaka gained everlasting fame as their greatest leader of destroyer forces. ...

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Submarine in the Bush – Holbrook NSW

Wahlquist, Gilbert · Mar 3, 2006 ·

I suppose it is the fantasy of every submariner – up periscope, a quick circuit and there, a cable’s length away – is the local pub. Dreams are about to ...

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Leadership: Admiral Karl Doenitz

Hume, A.R.N., Midshipman, RAN · Mar 3, 2006 ·

‘Admiral Doenitz was a great naval officer; our main regret should be that he was not on our side. He and a few thousand men in submarines came very near ...

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Nirimba Apprentices – Masters of their Craft

Newspaper, The Newcastle Herald · Mar 3, 2006 ·

Ten former Navy apprentices involved in the building of a yacht more than 40 years ago were reunited with the vessel in Newcastle this week as its new owners. The ...

Letters: Followup on HMS Nabob

Letter Writer · Dec 3, 2005 ·

In the article “HMS Nabob 1944″(REVIEW Sep 2005) mention is made of LCDR Bobby Bradshaw, particularly the landing on HMS Nabob and leading his squadron of Avengers under the Harbour ...

Letters: The Compassionate Japanese Destroyer Captain

Letter Writer · Dec 3, 2005 ·

I have just received some information from my friend Commander Andrew David RN which might be appropriate for mention in the NHS REVIEW. I have told him that I will ...

Victory at Trafalgar – How the News was Delivered

Newspaper, The Telegraph (UK) · Dec 3, 2005 ·

“Amongst the year-long celebration and commemoration of Lord Nelson’s final triumphant battle, there was a timely re-enactment of the memorable voyage and overland journey undertaken by the officer entrusted with Vice ...

Japanese Surrender onboard USS Missouri

Ashmore, Edward, Sir, Admiral of the Fleet, RN · Dec 3, 2005 ·

When the signal “Cease hostilities against Japan” was hoisted in the British Task Force, awaiting a broadcast to the Fleet by Admiral Halsey USN, a kamikaze splashed into the sea ...

British Pacific Fleet 1944-46

A.N. Other · Dec 3, 2005 ·

The sixtieth anniversary of the end of the war against Japan was commemorated on 31 Aug 2005 by a gathering of several hundred British and Australian naval veterans of the ...

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Obituary: Lieutenant W E Allen RAN (Retd) 1899-2005

A.N. Other · Dec 3, 2005 ·

Lieutenant Evan Allen, who died aged 106, was the last veteran to serve in the Royal Australian Navy in both world wars, and the last man to have seen both ...

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Ten facts about the Battle of Trafalgar

Newspaper, Daily Mirror (UK) · Sep 1, 2005 ·

Ten facts about the Battle of Trafalgar: – The youngest sailor to fight at Trafalgar was just 8 years old. – The oldest was 68. – A woman called Jane ...

Rationale for the Battle of Trafalgar

Grose, Kelvin · Sep 1, 2005 ·

The French have been interested in Australia and the Pacific since the reign of Louis XIV. La Perouse’s Pacific exploration was almost completed when Louis XVI ordered him to Botany ...

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HMAS Pioneer – Blockading German East Africa, 1915-16

A.N. Other · Sep 1, 2005 ·

The wardroom of the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) premier training establishment, HMAS Cerberus, is home to many fine treasures reflecting Australia’s naval heritage. Perhaps the most curious of these is ...

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Nelson’s Coat and the Bullet that Killed Him

A.N. Other · Sep 1, 2005 ·

Horatio Nelson’s “Trafalgar Coat”, the uniform he was wearing when he was shot, has been reunited with the French musket ball that passed through it and killed him in 1805. ...

The Preservation of Horatio, Lord Nelson’s Body

Grose, Kelvin · Sep 1, 2005 ·

Much has been written about Nelson in the lead up to this bicentenary of his death at the Battle of Trafalgar and here the author dispels the myth of “Nelson’s ...

HMS Nabob – Survival after U-Boat Attack in the Arctic 1944

Mackinlay, Gordon Angus · Sep 1, 2005 ·

HMS Nabob started life in Tacoma, Washington shipyard as a merchant vessel, converted to a Lease-Lend escort carrier, and the first flat-top to be manned by Canadians. On August 22, ...

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Offensive Minelaying – Pacific 1944 (Part 1)

Dowle, Ron · Sep 1, 2005 ·

After surviving the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in the Norwegian campaign in 1940, and a long and painful recovery from acute exposure, the author was posted to a ...

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Germany’s Surrender 60 years ago – Admiralty Signal

Thomson, Max · Sep 1, 2005 ·

A lifetime onwards, Navy men and women reflected inevitably during the month of May 2005 as to where they actually were when the German surrender brought about cessation of WWII ...

Wounded by a Tin of Peaches

Cooper, C.G.M., CPO, RAN · Jun 30, 2005 ·

The Tobruk Spud Run 1941 The three Services, Navy, Army and Air Force were as dissimilar as chalk and cheese, yet we were all bent on one purpose, to beat ...

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