“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 ...
History - general
Serving in Harmony – The Band of the Royal Australian Navy
England’s First Naval Victory-The Battle Of Sluys (AD 1340)
Mateship
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
Letters: Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
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
“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
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
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 ...