This is part 1 of an hitherto unpublished personal account was given to the Editor shortly before the death of the author, together with several other brief accounts of his ...
Ship histories and stories
Ping Wo’s Golden Secret
HMAS Ping Wo was not the most glamorous ship ever requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy. Described by at least one of her crew as a ‘rust bucket’, the 3105grt ...
The Great Storm of 1953 – Sheerness Dockyard
The winter of 1953 was marked by severe storms and flooding over vast areas of Kent and the Thames estuary, causing heavy loss of sheep and other livestock, after sea ...
The Loss of HMS Ambuscade
Confrontation-The Campaign Widens || RAN Participation 1964-66
Shore Patrol in Bermuda – HMS Blake 1971
RETURNING FROM A SUCCESSFUL DEPLOYMENT to the western sea-board of continental USA to support a major British Trade Exhibition in San Francisco, the helicopter cruiser HMS Blake paid a routine ...
The Admiralty Writ-HMS Hermes in Quebec City 1976
HMS Marlborough’s Account of the Iraq War, March 2003
North Borneo Patrol Malaysia/Indonesia Confrontation
Early in the Confrontation campaign 1963-66 a large proportion of the Far East Fleet was employed in actively patrolling the coastline of Malaysia and North Borneo – which had its ...