Rewritten by George Hicks from an article published by Lew Lind in the magazine Garden Island, January/February, 1970 HMAS Tarakan Type: General Purpose Vessel [ex-Landing Ship (Tank), LST3 Class] Pendant ...
Ship histories and stories
Further Reflections on the Sydney/Kormoran Battle, 1941
HMAS Quickmatch – Medical Rescue – 1944
Korean Waters – Tribal Class Destroyers
Gascoyne to the Rescue On Christmas Day 1944
HMAS Adelaide – Boarding Party, Persian Gulf 2004
U-859 – From Germany to Penang
HMS Invincible – A Flawed Design
Letters: Followup on Disappearance of AE1
I was very interested in reading about the disappearance of the AE1 submarine without a trace in 1914. I have an idea that it may have been sucked down by ...
Book Review: Shadow Voyage – Escape of the SS Bremen
Christmases Past …
1776 Captain James Cook with HM ships Resolution and Discovery, arrived at Kerguelen or Desolation Island and named it after Capitan de Kerguelen, the French navigator. 1789 Entry in New ...
HM Barque Endeavour Replica: Around the Horn 2002
Reflections on the Sydney/Kormoran Battle 1941
Sebastiano Venier-Mediterranean 1941: Tribute to an Enemy
Women in the RAN – a Personal Perspective
HMS Byron and the Captain’s Appendix
A Reminiscence – Bombers and MTBs in the Med
Naval Communications – One for the Sparkers 1942
In October 1942, an Australian ‘N’ Class and an RN Destroyer were searching for survivors from a ship torpedoed some 800 miles south of the Cape of Good Hope. The ...
