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WWI operations

The Australians at Zeebrugge

Swinden, Greg · Mar 1, 1999 ·

After reading Commodore Loxton’s letter to the Editor and his article concerning the Zeebrugge raid (in the last two issues of the Naval Historical Review), I thought a short letter ...

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Letters: St Nazaire Raid

Letter Writer · Mar 1, 1999 ·

Your article on the story of the St. Nazaire raid – “[The raid on St Nazaire 1942]” – left me rather amused. In the first instance the ship mentioned should ...

Letters – Australians at Zeebrugge

Loxton, Bruce, Commodore, RAN Rtd · Dec 14, 1998 ·

In the last issue of the Review you published my request for information regarding R.A.N. participation in the raid on Zeebrugge in 1918. Lieutenant Colonel John Bullen of Canberra was ...

Admiral Sir Victor Crutchley – Award of the Victoria Cross

Loxton, Bruce, Commodore, RAN Rtd · Dec 7, 1998 ·

Rear Admiral KA.C. Crutchley V.C., D.S.C., RN was Flag Officer Commanding H.M.A. Squadron – June 1942-June 1944 In late 1917 the German unrestricted submarine campaign was winning the war for ...

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The AE2 Graves

Swinden, Greg · Dec 7, 1998 ·

In the Baghdad North Gate Cemetery (Iraq) are the graves or memorials of four RAN sailors who died during World War I. Who were these men? How did they come ...

Letters – Unacknowledged heroes

Barton, Alan · Sep 18, 1998 ·

I have read with interest the comments in the Naval Historical Review on HMAS YARRA and Leading Seaman Taylor’s heroic action. I also believe this last action of YARRA’S has ...

The Gallipoli Campaign – Pictorial of Naval Ops

Jeffrey, Vic · Mar 21, 1998 ·

These four pictures capture different aspects of the naval side of the operation.           ...

The Tragedy of ‘Q’ Ship HMS Stonecrop – 1917

Auten, Harold, VC, Lieutenant Commander, RN · Mar 6, 1997 ·

In a previous issue of `Review’ (September 1996) we published the success story of the `Q’ ship, HMS ‘Stonecrop’, in WWI. In the `O’ boat service, it was luck which decided the ...

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Q-ship sinks U-boat – HMS Stonecrop – 1917

Blackwood, Henry, Captain, RN · Sep 5, 1996 ·

Captain Downes’s talk in April this year highlighted the less exciting but nonetheless demanding aspects of “Q” ship operations. H.M.S. Stonecrop’s experience in WWI was quite different. Sadly, she herself ...

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Submarine Sinks Battleship – Holbrook VC

Weston, Bert E. · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Commander Norman Douglas Holbrook VC, who won the first Victoria Cross to be gazetted in the Royal Navy in WWI, for his exploit in sinking the Turkish battleship MESSOUDIEH, inside the Sea ...

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Navy Blue Anzacs – The RAN in the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign

Swinden, Greg · Mar 2, 1996 ·

Mention Gallipoli to any Australian and they will immediately think of bronzed ANZACs storming ashore at ANZAC Cove on 25th April 1915, Simpson and his donkey evacuating wounded, or the ...

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Battle of Jutland and Leyte Gulf – A comparison

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Sep 16, 1994 ·

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Convoy System – WW1 and WW2 Comparisons

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Jun 11, 1994 ·

In World War I the convoy system was not instituted until May 1917, whilst in World War II convoys were quickly organised soon after war was declared in September 1939. ...

The Two Falkland Islands Wars – 1914 (Part 1)

A.N. Other · Mar 12, 1994 ·

Battle of Coronel – 1914 Although the Royal Navy outnumbered the German navy by a huge margin in 1914, British strength was concentrated in the North Sea, leaving small isolated ...

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HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran – Possible and Probable Search Areas

Kirsner, Professor Kim, (UWA) · Mar 12, 1994 ·

[Update from John Date: Following an intimation in the September 1993 issue of our journal NAVAL HISTORICAL REVIEW by Mike McCarthy, Curator of Maritime Archaeology of the Western Australian Maritime ...

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Search for the German Asiatic Squadron – 1914-1916

Jarrett, Hugh · Jul 12, 1992 ·

At the outbreak of war on 4th August, 1914, the German East Asiatic Squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee, had its base at the fortified harbour of Tsing-tao on ...

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HMAS Sydney – A Tale of Two Warships

Sullivan, John · Sep 11, 1991 ·

November is an important month in Australian naval history, but this article deals with just two events which occurred in that month. Both relate to HMAS SYDNEY, the first involving ...

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RAN – First Naval Casualty – Loss Of AE1

Fuqua Chris S · Jun 11, 1991 ·

July, 1914: The Royal Australian Navy is still in the embryonic stages, its forces limited and comparatively minuscule to the navies of the world powers. The R.A.N.’s current strength lies ...

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Naval Operations against Turkey leading to ANZAC

Smythe, D.H.D., AO, Commodore, RAN · Jun 11, 1991 ·

Originally, the Gallipoli campaign was planned to be a purely naval show. But let me go back in history a little further even than that. The Gallipoli campaign was caused, ...

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Book Review: First In Last Out – The Navy at Gallipoli

Hinchliffe, L.M. · Jun 29, 1990 ·

First in, Last out  – the Navy at Gallipoli By T R Frame and G J Swinden This is a timely book. It is 75 years since the landings at ...

Not the Dockyard Please

Rivett, Norman C · Jun 20, 1990 ·

I read M.A. Head’s article Up With a Bang, NHR December 1989, with interest, including the quote from the fictitious Commander James Bond, RN. For a number of logical reasons, ...

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Australian Naval History on 4 May 1990

On This Day · May 4, 1990 ·

HMAS SYDNEY, (frigate), visited the French port of Toulon while on her circumnavigation of the world, following the commemoration services at Gallipoli in April. She was the first ship of ...

Australian Naval History on 25 April 1990

On This Day · Apr 25, 1990 ·

Three RAN vessels, (HMA Ships SYDNEY, TOBRUK and OXLEY), represented the RAN at the 75th Anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli. SYDNEY was chosen as her namesake had escorted the ...

Dry Land Sailors – The Navy at Gallipoli

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 1990 ·

At 4.30 on the morning of December 20 1915, Sub Lieutenant Charles Hicks and his fifty man detachment of the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, stood waiting in the dark ...

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HMAS Sydney-SMS Emden Action at Cocos Islands 1914 – A German Survivor’s Account

Clark, Bryan · Sep 18, 1989 ·

Republished from the “Clarion” newspaper, Cocos Island, (in 1964), and now to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the original HMAS Sydney’s battle with the German light cruiser, Emden, at North ...

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