(Ron Dowle continues this account of his service in the fast minelayer HMS Ariadne in the Pacific war 1944-45 – Part 1 is in September 2005 Edition of Review) In ...
Biographies and personal histories
Book Review: The Biography of Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN
Title: The Biography of Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN, Government Resident at Albany, Western Australia 1833 – 1839 (Napoleonic War naval hero and Australian pioneer) Author: Gwen Chessell, 2005, Publisher: ...
Aviator or Seaman or Both?
Nelson’s Coat and the Bullet that Killed Him
Horatio Nelson’s “Trafalgar Coat”, the uniform he was wearing when he was shot, has been reunited with the French musket ball that passed through it and killed him in 1805. ...
HMS Nabob – Survival after U-Boat Attack in the Arctic 1944
Offensive Minelaying – Pacific 1944 (Part 1)
Captain John Cooke, HMS Bellerophon
Captain John Cooke, HMS Bellerophon || Killed at Trafalgar 1805 In a small column of the Sydney Morning Herald on 14-15 May 2005 ((Community RSVP)) a plaintive request was noted ...
A Letter from Trafalgar 1805
Able Seaman Harry Mason
Those of us who were fortunate in knowing him will be saddened to learn of Harry’s death earlier this year, aged 93. Harry was an Englishman, obviously from a good ...
The Naval Staff in Retrospect
Why did it always seem to happen? There I would be, thoroughly enjoying myself either flying somewhere or swanning around the Far East in a nice frigate, when out of ...