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Letter to the Editor

Letter: Our First Fleet Commander (March 2015)

Letter Writer · Jun 18, 2015 ·

 Tony Nichols, our Canadian correspondence comments: I always enjoy reading the NHR. What caught my eye in the article you wrote on Admiral Patey was the name Seydlitz which you describe ...

Letter: Able Seaman Frank Boston: Covering the Gallipoli Landings (March 2015)

Letter Writer · Jun 18, 2015 ·

Errol Stevens from Woolgoolga, NSW offers a well founded correction. Perhaps it may just be semantics, but I query the statement in the NHR March 2015 page 28 when discussing ...

HMAS Kanimbla

Letter Writer · Mar 16, 2015 ·

Dear Editor I refer to the back cover of the latest (December 2013) issue of the NHR. The painting of the lovely Kanimbla shows her post her time as HMAS – ...

Letter: RANHS Grantala

Letter Writer · Dec 23, 2014 ·

The following email was received from Mike Dowsett, regrettably not in time for our September edition. A hundred years ago today, 30th August 1914 the Royal Australian Navy Hospital Ship ...

Letter: Montagu Whalers

Letter Writer · Sep 24, 2014 ·

Dear Editor In the latest issue of the Review (June 2014) is a very interesting article by Kingsley Perry about the 1963 Whitsunday Whaler Incident. In both the article and ...

Letter: SS Kanowna – did she have a mutiny?

Letter Writer · Jun 15, 2014 ·

Dear Editor I am a volunteer researcher of the Society making sure what may become history, and ensuring an extension of past facts is correct, which is important. Each issue ...

Letter: HMAS Kuru

Letter Writer · Mar 24, 2014 ·

Dear Sir, I was very interested to read the article concerning the above ship which was included in the September 2013 issue of the Review. My father was Commanding Officer ...

Letter: HMAS Platypus and the Darwin Blitz February 1942

Letter Writer · Mar 1, 2014 ·

Dear Editor I have just read G. W. Ireland’s recounting of his experience in Darwin during the first and continuing raids and I would like to add that my father, ...

Letter: Manus Island

Letter Writer · Dec 24, 2013 ·

Dear Sir, I read Jerry Lattin’s treatise on Manus Island in the June edition of the NHS Review with great interest. My father, Chaplain Patrick Helyer ALCD, FRGS, RAN (Retd), ...

Letter: Sea mine

Letter Writer · Dec 13, 2013 ·

The article by Sub-Lieutenant N.J. Laing, RAN in the June 2013 Review quotes the myth that the sea mine ‘accounted for more shipping losses than any other weapon’ during World ...

Letter: The Phantom Paradise

Letter Writer · Dec 13, 2013 ·

I refer to the article The Phantom Paradise in the September 2013 edition of the NHR and offer a little more information on the doctor. In November 1882, the Queensland ...

Letter: The Hammerhead Crane

Editorial Staff · Sep 24, 2013 ·

A number of our readers have pointed out an erroneous comment made in the article regarding the Hammerhead Crane contained in the June 2013 edition of this magazine. This concerns ...

Letter: Sydney Sharp-Shooter and the Zero

Letter Writer · Jun 4, 2013 ·

Dear Editor On page 23 of the Naval Historical Review (March 2013), the statement is made that Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima (alias Tadeo Minami) captured on 19 February 1942 was the ...

Letter: Gallipoli and Other Stories

Letter Writer · Jun 4, 2013 ·

Dear Editor, I thoroughly enjoyed the March 2013 edition of the Review, thank you. I think it’s your best to date but I beg to take issue with a couple ...

Letter: Talbot-Booth and Sydney/Kormoran

Letter Writer · Jun 4, 2013 ·

Dear Editor No one on earth knows what information HMAS Sydney II was carrying in regards to ships’ identities either by book, signal or personal knowledge. What we do know ...

Letter: District Officers Boats

Letter Writer · Jun 4, 2013 ·

In the article District Officers Boats (NHR December 2012) on the restoration of MB172 and its previous naval service in Darwin, reference was made to two launches only, MB 168 ...

Letter: HMS Pickle

Letter Writer · Dec 24, 2012 ·

Trafalgar in a Pickle Some sharp eyed readers have queried the flags worn by HMS Pickle which featured on the cover of the September edition of this magazine. She displays ...

Letter: Piper Report and Dangers to Navigation

Letter Writer · Dec 4, 2012 ·

Dear Sir, Well done for the September issue of the Naval Historical Review. Another good read. May I say that as far as my service with the Royal Australian Navy ...

Letter: Allegations of abuse

Letter Writer · Dec 4, 2012 ·

Dear Editor I thought I would share my concern at the claims made on the ABC 7.30 report tonight. My concern is that the problem is portrayed as being systemic, ...

Letter: Wallaroo’s Submarine Attack

Letter Writer · Dec 4, 2012 ·

Dear Sir, I was very interested in Mr Les Heap’s report of Wallaroo’s submarine attack (NHR September 2012), outside Sydney Heads on 1 June 1942. Your Editor, in discussing the ...

Letter: HMAS Choules

Smith, John, Cmdr, RAN (RTD) · Dec 16, 2011 ·

In early 2011, it was announced the RAN would purchase RFA Largs Bay, a six year old Landing Ship Dock (LSD) now surplus to British requirements. The purchase price was ...

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Letter: Fred Dawson

Editorial Staff · Sep 4, 2011 ·

One of our members, Fred Dawson of Nowra, has written pointing out a few errors in articles contained in the March 2011 edition of the Review (Vol 32 No 1). ...

Letters: ONS 5 and the U-Boat Battle

Letter Writer · Dec 21, 2010 ·

Dear Sir, I was very pleased to read the article by Captain A.M. Downes entitled ONS 5 and the U-Boat Battle in the latest issue of the Naval Historical Review. ...

Letters: The Naming of RAN Ships

Letter Writer · Sep 21, 2010 ·

Dear Sir, …In your article ‘The Naming of RAN Ships’, there was not even the sniff of a name of a ship of the RAN Hydrographic Service, (now the Australian ...

Letters: VC for Sheehan is a Pandora’s Box

Letter Writer · Dec 7, 2008 ·

Noting the statement regarding the Sheehan’s family fight for VC, I thought that the enclosures may be of interest to your members. While there is no denying the bravery of ...

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