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History - WW1

Lone Pine wreath laying

A.N. Other · Jun 1, 1990 ·

REQUEST THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE BE PASSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA, CAPTAIN L.M. HINCHLIFFE, DSC RAN RTD. QUOTE WREATH LAYING MISSION AT LONE PINE ACCOMPLISHED. ...

Dry Land Sailors – The Navy at Gallipoli

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 1990 ·

At 4.30 on the morning of December 20 1915, Sub Lieutenant Charles Hicks and his fifty man detachment of the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, stood waiting in the dark ...

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The Loss of HMS Natal due Internal Explosion – 1915

Head, M.A., S.J. · Dec 19, 1989 ·

There is no more frightening end to a warship than the sudden death of the internal explosion. One moment a ship can be lying quietly in harbour and the next, ...

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The WW1 Troopship SS Suevic – A Short History

Date, John C., RANVR (Rtd) · Jun 14, 1989 ·

The above interesting photo of the troopship S.S. SUEVIC, which appears to have been taken in SydneyHarbour, was held by George Hancock, formerly of SydneyHigh School and who was probably ...

Sydney – Emden Action: a short history

A.N. Other · Jun 11, 1987 ·

IN OCTOBER 1914, Sydney and her sister ship Melbourne detached from the Flagship (Australia) and returned to Australia to form a unit of the escort of the first Anzac convoy ...

Royal Australian Naval Operations 1914

Hinchliffe, L.M. · Sep 24, 1986 ·

I FEEL THAT THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY of the Royal Australian Navy should not be allowed to slip away without brief mention of the operations carried out by the Navy in ...

Turkish Treatment of British Naval Prisoners

Trimmer, L.S. Henry · Dec 9, 1984 ·

Little has been written on the treatment of naval prisoners in Turkish prisoner of war camps in World War I. Although this report was written by a Royal Navy sailor ...

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Memories of HMS Renown

Rettie, Alexander · Jun 21, 1984 ·

I actually joined the ship at the age of 16 years, as a boy rating. My early experience with the RENOWN was during the 1914-18 war. Much of our time ...

The Old Fou Fou Band

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 1984 ·

No self respecting warship in the World War I era was without its Fou Fou Band. Originality was the keynote of a successful Fou Fou Band and from this photograph of ...

Minesweeping in the old Protector

A.N. Other · Dec 31, 1983 ·

Anon This verbatim account of life in the old gunboat HMAS Protector was found in the editorial files of the late Harry Adlam, but unfortunately it lacked the author’s name. ...

Coastal Motor Boats – 1916

Denis, A.L.E., Commander, RNR (Rtd) · Mar 31, 1980 ·

In the early summer of 1915 three young Naval Officers from the Harwich Destroyer Force (Lieutenants Hampden, Bremner and Anson) conceived the idea of a small fast motor boat, capable ...

HMS Nestor at Jutland

Bingham, Barry, The Hon. VC, Commander, RN · Sep 7, 1979 ·

THINGS SEEMED AS PEACEFUL as could be on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 30th when Maurice Bethell and I went ashore for a round of golf at Bruntsfield near Edinburgh. ...

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Battle Cruisers in Collision

Ross, Trevor Wilson, OBE, Captain, RAN · Dec 31, 1975 ·

By some remarkable coincidences no Australian warships took part in the Battle of Jutland. Due to a collision HMAS Australia and HMS New Zealand missed the action. ON 21ST APRIL ...

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Australians at Zeebrugge

Burness, Peter · Dec 31, 1975 ·

Reprinted by kind permission of Editor of ‘Despatch’ ZEEBRUGGE LAY ON THE BELGIAN COAST at the mouth of the inland port of Bruges, a major German U-boat base. Operating out ...

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Australian Naval Aviation – Part 3

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Mar 31, 1974 ·

In the third part of his story on Australian Naval Aviation, Group Captain Isaacs discusses the merits of the Sopwith Ship’s Strutter and the Sopwith Ship’s Camel, aircraft that played ...

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AUSTRALIA Sinks the Elenore Woerman

A.N. Other · Mar 31, 1974 ·

WHEN THE NEW BRITAIN – NEW GUINEA CAMPAIGN drew to a close HMAS Australia was ordered to the Atlantic. The route selected was east across the Pacific, and so the ...

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