‘TO HEAR OF HIS OLD SHIP BEING SOLD to the shipbreakers is, to the sailor, like the death of an old pal.’ So wrote Mr. A. C. Newton, R.N. (Rtd.), ...
Ship histories and stories
Stuart sinks Gondar (1941)
HMS Exeter at the Battle of River Plate
She Was the Best – HMAS Warramunga
Commander Alliston is well fitted to speak of Australian ships and Australian seamen. On 15th June 1941 while commanding HMS Javelin he went to the aid of HMAS Nestor, fatally ...
HMAS Quiberon
WHEN MR. MENZIES WAS IN BRITAIN in early 1941 it was suggested to him that the RAN should man the remaining three ‘N’ Class destroyers to make up a full ...