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History - general

The Countess of Hopetoun Incident, December 1915

Swinden, Greg · Jun 20, 2000 ·

Dangers of Service at Sea The fire onboard HMAS Westralia in May 1998 in which four members of the RAN were killed and the loss of six yachtsman in the ...

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Letters – Australians at War documentary

Letter Writer · Mar 1, 2000 ·

The 1999-2000 Federal Budget provided $5 million for the production of a TV documentary series, Australians at War, which will cover the major conflicts in which Australia has participated, and ...

The Grave of Annie Dorrington – Australian Flag Co-Designer

Australian National Flag Association (NSW) Inc · Dec 7, 1999 ·

It doesn’t mean we owe allegiance To a forgotten Imperial dream: We’ve the stars to show where we’re going And the old flag to show where we’ve been. (from a ...

NZ Scow ECHO – role in World War II

Dare, Tim · Dec 7, 1999 ·

The New Zealand scow was developed from the Canadian/US log barges that plied the Great Lakes during the 1800s. First built in New Zealand in 1873 for Septimus Meiklejohn of ...

Loss of HMS Orpheus

Torrington, Reg · Dec 7, 1999 ·

“The Daily Southern Cross “, a newspaper in Auckland, New Zealand, published in the issue of Monday, February 9, 1863 on page 3 the following news item: “Dreadful Calamity Loss ...

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Serving in Harmony – The Band of the Royal Australian Navy

Greedy, Ashton W., AM, LRAM, DipMusMan, Commander, RAN · Dec 7, 1999 ·

A few days after setting up camp in Sydney Cove, Captain Phillip was duly installed as Governor of the colony, an event marked with due ceremony by Drum Major Benjamin ...

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England’s First Naval Victory-The Battle Of Sluys (AD 1340)

Chaloner · Sep 1, 1999 ·

Sluys, in the naval history of England, is relegated to a position of far less importance than the admittedly more exciting battles of Trafalgar, Jutland or Cape St Vincent (Horatio ...

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Mateship

A.N. Other · Jun 1, 1999 ·

There has been a lot spoken and written recently on this subject. Perhaps it can he best described in the following terms: There’s a sort of bonding that develops out ...

Garden Island – The Barracks Building

Rivett, Norman C · Jun 1, 1999 ·

In keeping with other historic buildings on Garden Island “The Barracks Building” has been fortunate never to have been officially named. Names tend to relate to periods and thus have ...

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Letters: Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Stevens, Errol · Mar 1, 1999 ·

Most of our readers will have been aware that the Queen unveiled the huge re-gilded statue of both her and her husband’s great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert, in London in October 1998. ...

Book Review: Our Shetland Heritage and Emigration to Australia

Book reviewer · Dec 18, 1998 ·

“Our Shetland Heritage and Emigration to Australia” by Janet Halcrow Basically, this is a family history of the fifth, sixth and seventh generations of the Halcrows, probing their Shetland background ...

Letters – Location of Sensuikan 1-124

Letter Writer · Dec 18, 1998 ·

Concerning the Japanese submarine I-124 (Sensuikan I-124 by Tom Lewis and reviewed by T.R. Duchesne – NHR Vol. 19 No.2), its wreck is shown on the approaches to Darwin chart ...

Napoleon’s Fleet – Found Buried in Seabed off Egypt

Newservice, Associated Press · Dec 7, 1998 ·

CAIRO – Two centuries after a historic battle destroyed Napoleon’s hopes of crushing the British Empire, the French Emperor’s fleet has been discovered entombed in the depths of an artifact-rich ...

A Brief History of the Royal Marines Buglers

O'Connell, J.F., Warrant Officer One Bugler, RM · Dec 7, 1998 ·

As Buglers the branch is comparatively new, (circa 1850) but as Drummers it goes back to the birth of the Corps. The drum as a martial instrument dates back to ...

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Captain Harvey Newcomb RN – Newcomb Building, HMAS Watson

Worledge, Ray · Dec 7, 1998 ·

On October 28, 1997 the Royal Australian Navy’s Surface Warfare School Building was formally renamed the “Newcomb Building”, commemorating the service of Captain Harvey Mansfield Newcomb. At the end of ...

Nelson’s coffin – Yet another version

A.N. Other · Dec 5, 1998 ·

Here is another version of the story of Nelson’s Coffin: Captain Hallowell sent a party to salvage wood from L’Orient. Months later, when he was afraid that the adulation being ...

The Nelson Touch – a Trafalgar Day address

Lancaster, John · Sep 18, 1998 ·

[Trafalgar Day Address 1997 to the Naval Officers’ Association, Western Australia, by Captain John Lancaster AM RAN (Ret’d)] Trafalgar Day provides the embodiment of what in our waning years, we may ...

Book Review: Shipmates

Book reviewer · Sep 18, 1998 ·

Many of our readers will be familiar with Vic Cassells as the author of “For Those in Peril“, which chronicled the loss of RAN ships and men in past conflicts. ...

Letters – The Senior Service

Letter Writer · Sep 18, 1998 ·

Which Service Came First? “Snow” Mackrell, a member, has forwarded some correspondence concerning his contention that the Navy is the “Senior Service” as, “after Federation, it was the Navy which ...

Navy Square – Port Melbourne

A.N. Other · Sep 16, 1998 ·

The concept of a naval memorial in Port Melbourne arose in May 1997 when it was observed that following the 1994 decommissioning of HMAS Lonsdale, there was no feature in ...

HMAS Canberra’s Crest – Return from P&O Liner Canberra

Dedman, Aub · Jun 27, 1998 ·

On the 24th April, 1964 a small group of survivors from HMAS Canberra met on board the P&O Liner Canberra to present to the captain a replica of HMAS Canberra’s crest, i.e., the ...

The Hammock

A.N. Other · Jun 27, 1998 ·

The issue hammock, the beloved pusser sack – one of man’s most endearing inventions – has vanished, alas, from Navy messdecks and establishments. It has been replaced by the impersonal ...

In Remorse Mode about the Morse Code!

Newspaper, Sydney Morning Herald · Jun 27, 1998 ·

Extracts from The Sydney Morning Herald (Kendall Hill) and The Sun-Herald (Peter Robinson) It revolutionised the way humans communicated long before the likes of the telephone, the radio and e-mail. ...

Letters: Astern Refuelling: HMAS Brisbane (1)

Letter Writer · Mar 7, 1998 ·

Re Naval Historical Review December 1997: HMAS BRISBANE The photograph of HMAS BRISBANE shows the ship under way and fuelling by the astern method. The tanker in this case is almost certainly ...

The Epaulettes of the Father of the RAN – Vice Admiral Sir William Creswell KCMG KBE

Gregory, Mackenzie J. · Dec 6, 1997 ·

Sir William was born at Gibraltar in 1852. At age 13, he entered the Royal Navy, joining the “Britannia” as a Cadet. As a Midshipman in H.M.S. “Phoebe” he enjoyed ...

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