Christmas 1944 was celebrated in a variety of ways and under widely differing conditions in the RAN. Here are just a few recorded by C. Hermion Gill. THERE WERE, HOWEVER, ...
History - general
For Valour- Naval Victoria Crosses of World War II
Antique Cannon at Garden Island
THE 12 CANNON in the Garden Island Collection cover a period of almost four centuries. The earliest, two brass Portuguese pieces believed to have been cast in Spain in the ...
Book Review: Australian Naval Administration 1900-1939
Author – Robert Hyslop It is fitting that the two most important works on the organisation and administration of the Royal Australian Navy should be written by a Secretary and ...
Out of the Past – pictorial
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British and German submarine statistics of World War II
THE GERMAN NAVY commenced World War II with fifty-six submarines, of which only twenty four were suitable for operations in the Atlantic. In the five and a half years of ...
Nestor died slowly
Twins Were Pioneers of the RAN
An announcement that two brothers had been appointed to command sister ships in Australia’s Destroyer Squadron has brought to light the careers of twin brothers who were pioneers of the ...
