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Battles and operations

Book Review: Trafalgar – the Men, the Battle, the Storm

Book reviewer · Jun 18, 2005 ·

Trafalgar – the Men, the Battle, the Storm By Tim Clayton & Phil Craig London Hodder & Stoughton 2004. rrp $39.95. Reviewed by Bob Nicholls Once upon a time, not ...

Captain John Cooke, HMS Bellerophon

A.N. Other · Jun 10, 2005 ·

Captain John Cooke, HMS Bellerophon || Killed at Trafalgar 1805 In a small column of the Sydney Morning Herald on 14-15 May 2005 ((Community RSVP)) a plaintive request was noted ...

HMS Britannia at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805

Grose, Kelvin · Jun 10, 2005 ·

ON RENEWAL OF THE WAR in 1803, Rear Admiral Lord Northesk was immediately appointed to HMS Britannia ((Name of the last Royal Yacht 1953-2001, and the Roman name for Britain)) ...

A Letter from Trafalgar 1805

Grose, Kelvin · Jun 10, 2005 ·

Dr. L.H. Halloran was an orphan and was educated at Christ’s Hospital School and in the Royal Navy. He was admitted to the former on 22 April 1774 aged eight ...

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German Prisoners of War in Australia WW2

Wright, Ken · Mar 30, 2005 ·

After the sinking of HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran in 1941, a considerable number of Kriegsmarine survivors were rescued and became prisoners of war. This account details some of their ...

RAN Minelaying Effort during WW2

Calder, Norman, OBE, Commander, RAN · Mar 30, 2005 ·

This extract is taken from NHSA Monograph No. 179 ‘HMAS Bungaree – Australia’s only Minelayer’ – which was published in 2003, but has not been widely circulated. The Admiralty suggested ...

Anti-Submarine Defences of Sydney Harbour 1942

Kennedy, David · Mar 30, 2005 ·

The British Officer-in-Charge of Australia’s anti-submarine training establishment warned Navy chiefs, four months before Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour in May 1942, that the defences against such a raid ...

Hitler’s Indian Ocean Grey Wolves

Wright, Ken · Mar 30, 2005 ·

BY MAY 1943, Germany had lost the Battle of the Atlantic. U-Boat losses had reached an intolerable level for the Germans with the loss of 38 U-Boats for that month ...

Australian Naval History on 12 March 2005

On This Day · Mar 12, 2005 ·

The frigate HMAS ANZAC, (CAPT Richard Menhenick, CSC, RAN), departed Australia on a six month world cruise, (Operation Northern Trident). During the cruise the ship was destined to take part ...

90 Years on: Rabaul and Sydney/Emden 1914

Perryman, John, LEUT, RANR (Senior Naval Historical Officer) · Dec 31, 2004 ·

This article was originally published in ‘Semaphore’, the newsletter of the Sea Power Centre – Australia. It is republished with the kind agreement of the Sea Power Centre. This year ...

Operation Pedestal and the Tanker Ohio

Morton, Ray · Dec 10, 2004 ·

In August 1942 British Merchant Navy veteran Ray Morton was an eyewitness to one of the most celebrated Allied achievements of World War II – Operation Pedestal, or the Convoy ...

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The Sinking of HMS Glorious – Evacuation From Norway 1940

Doyle, Ron, Leading Seaman · Dec 10, 2004 ·

By Leading Seaman Ron Dowle – one of the very few survivors, and the last one living. A member of the Naval Association at Ballina, NSW, he has granted permission ...

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Special Service

Worledge, Ray · Sep 30, 2004 ·

You could say it all began when I pounded on the desk of the elderly Commander at the Admiralty. I was a young officer with a great grievance. Looking back, ...

HMAS Australia – Kamikaze Attack 1944

de Lisle, Roger · Sep 30, 2004 ·

This year (2004) marks the 60th anniversary of the first kamikaze attack on HMAS Australia. As Roger de Lisle reports, Japanese suicide pilots hurled their aircraft onto Allied ships with ...

The Gift Minesweepers

Sinfield, Peter · Sep 30, 2004 ·

The first dedicated minesweeping vessels in the RAN made their appearance in Australian waters at the end of WW1 to sweep minefields sown by a German raider during the war, ...

Sydney Memorial to HM Submarine K13

Ellis, John · Sep 30, 2004 ·

Alongside Pennant Hills Road in Carlingford, a Sydney suburb, is a memorial comprising a pond, rocks, the lettering K13 and brass plates. Of those who have seen it, how many ...

HMAS Vendetta WW2

William F. Cook, MVO, Captain, RAN (Rtd) · Sep 30, 2004 ·

This is part 3 of an hitherto unpublished personal account was given to the Editor shortly before the death of the author, together with several other brief accounts of his ...

The Great Amphibious Invasion: D-Day, 6 June 1944

Strazcek, Joe, LCDR, RANR · Sep 30, 2004 ·

One of the clearest demonstrations of sea power occurred on 6 June 1944, when the Allies landed in German-occupied Normandy in the greatest sea-borne invasion in history. Operation OVERLORD was ...

Action off Endau

Sinfield, Peter · Jun 30, 2004 ·

After the tragic loss of Force Z (HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse) the previous month, HMAS Vampire experienced a short, defiant action against the invading Japanese off the Malayan ...

Australians in Midget Submarines

Worledge, Ray · Jun 30, 2004 ·

A short account of British midget submarine operations during WW2 in which Australians participated with considerable success. Previously published in ANWM Wartime Issue 19 and the Naval Officers’ Club Newsletter ...

The Amethyst Incident Recalled

Captain Peter Hore, RN · Jun 10, 2004 ·

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR PETER BERGER, who has died aged 78, was awarded a DSC after the Yangtze incident. On April 20 1949, as the civil war between Chinese Communists and Nationalists ...

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Visit To HMAS Sheean – Garden Island 2003

A.N. Other · Jun 10, 2004 ·

The Editor managed to score an unexpected conducted tour of one of the RAN’s latest Collins Class submarines, HMAS Sheean, alongside the dedicated submarine berth in Fleet Base East. ON ...

By Dawn’s Early Light

van Gelder, Commander John RAN (Rtd) · Jun 10, 2004 ·

IT IS DOUBTFUL if there is anything in the world more complex than the human mind. In our passage through life we are all subjected to experiences which have an ...

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HMAS Hawkesbury and Singapore POWs return

Thomson, Max · Jun 10, 2004 ·

With the unveiling by CDF General Cosgrove at Ballarat on 6 February 2004 of the memorial dedicated to 35,000 Australians who became prisoners-of-war in all conflicts, journalist and Navy veteran ...

HMS Vanessa North Atlantic 1941

Crockett, Davie, Sub-Lieutenant, RNVR · Jun 10, 2004 ·

A Lower Deck account of the misery at sea in an old destroyer during an Atlantic gale. WHEN I JOINED THE NAVY the probability of encountering dangerous weather did not ...

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