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The Navy and a Yacht Race

A.N. Other · Dec 10, 2010 ·

Most of the information for this article came from Dr Marsden Hordern, OAM, who is a long standing member of the Naval Historical Society, an acknowledged author and naval historian. ...

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Observation or Espionage

Smith, John, Cmdr, RAN (RTD) · Dec 10, 2010 ·

This article provides an interesting insight for all those who have suffered the travails of completing a midshipman’s journal. In my time one of the many tasks inflicted on midshipmen ...

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Kamikazes, Suicide Bombers and Us

Shinkfield, Des · Dec 10, 2010 ·

The following speech was delivered to the Australian Naval Historical Society on Monday, 26 June, 2006 Thank you for the opportunity to speak about kamikazes. But let me enlarge on ...

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The RAN without an Aircraft Carrier – What If…

Howland, Tony · Sep 21, 2010 ·

Recently, whilst going through my files in preparation for handing over everything to my successor as the Editor of this eminent magazine, I came across a copy of the attached ...

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Book Review: A Hard Fought Ship

Book reviewer · Sep 21, 2010 ·

A Hard Fought Ship, The Story of HMS Venomous. By Robert J Moore and John A Rodgaard. ISBN 978-0-9559382-0-7. Published by Holywell House Publishing, Portsmouth, UK. RRP is UK£18.99. It can ...

Letters: The Naming of RAN Ships

Letter Writer · Sep 21, 2010 ·

Dear Sir, …In your article ‘The Naming of RAN Ships’, there was not even the sniff of a name of a ship of the RAN Hydrographic Service, (now the Australian ...

Schooner Gerard – WW2 Service in New Guinea

NHSA Webmaster · Sep 21, 2010 ·

It was only three years after the close of WW I that Gerard, as we knew her, was built by the famous Krupp Company in, of all places, Kiel in ...

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HMAS Maryborough – Indian Ocean May 1942

Ogle, Brian · Sep 10, 2010 ·

On 6th May  1942 the Captain of HMAS Maryborough, Commander Cant, sent the following signal by Aldis lamp: ‘Get all those bloody passengers into the stokehold.’ This is recorded in ...

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The RAN and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Periodical, Semaphore · Sep 10, 2010 ·

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Issue 6 of Semaphore, the publication produced by The Sea Power Centre Australia in March 2006. We are indebted to them for their ...

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The ‘Highball’ bomb/mine

Nicholls, Bob · Sep 10, 2010 ·

Narellan, south west of Sydney, is the site, at the local airport, of the Camden Museum of Aviation, which houses a collection of some 22 vintage aircraft. One of these ...

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Australian Sailors at Zeebrugge, 1918

Periodical, Semaphore · Sep 10, 2010 ·

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the March, 2007 issue of Semaphore, the newsletter of the Sea Power Centre of Australia.  We are grateful for their ongoing permission to ...

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U-Boat Battle – Convoy ONS5

Downes, A.M., Captain · Sep 10, 2010 ·

This article is an edited version of a talk given by Captain A.M. Downes to the Company of Master Mariners, Sydney Branch, on 24th November 1993. Tonight I want to ...

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The Story of the Willie D

Fazio, Lieut. V. RANEM · Jun 21, 2010 ·

Editor’s Note: This story was discovered and contributed by Vince Fazio. He wishes it to be known that he is no relation to the Torpedoman Fazio mentioned in the text. ...

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The Naming of RAN Ships

Periodical, Sea Power Centre · Jun 21, 2010 ·

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Newsletter of the Sea Power Centre – Australia, dated February, 2007. We are grateful for the Centre’s permission to publish the article. ...

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The Royal Australian Navy at War South-West Pacific Area

A.N. Other · Jun 21, 2010 ·

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in 1942 in a book called HMAS, the first of an annual collection of articles and pictures compiled and distributed throughout WW II ...

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Malta Revisited

Hill, Gordon · Jun 10, 2010 ·

Memories of HMAS Vendetta in Malta in World War ll The George Cross Island Association Reunion 2004 gave me the opportunity to revisit Malta. I knew that if I put ...

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RMS Operations by the RAN in the Pacific – World War II

Turner, Mike · Jun 10, 2010 ·

RMS officers in the RAN conducted numerous Rendering Mines Safe (RMS) operations along the Australian coast and at islands to the north of Australia. Most of the RMS operations were ...

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The Society’s 40th Anniversary

Howland, Tony · Jun 10, 2010 ·

This year, 2010, marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Naval Historical Society of Australia. The last major anniversary we celebrated at the Naval Historical Society was our ...

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RMS Operations by the RAN in Europe – World War II

Turner, Mike · Jun 7, 2010 ·

Bombs and mines were rendered safe by the RAN in the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East during World War II. RAN personnel were highly decorated for their extraordinary ...

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Book Review: The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953

Book reviewer · Mar 21, 2010 ·

The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953 By Peter V Nash. University Press of Florida, USA. ISBN 978 0 8130 3367 9 Reviewed by Tony Howland ...

Obituary: Captain John Frederick Bell, RAN, (Retired)

Wright, W Graham, Captain, RAN (Retired) · Mar 21, 2010 ·

William Shakespeare wrote: ‘The good men do is oft interred with their bones’. So that this will not happen here, I will tell you about John Bell, the boy, which ...

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Obituary: Commander H.K. Duncan, OAM, RAN

Fogarty, Michael · Mar 21, 2010 ·

The commanding officer attempted to light his cigarette. He had gathered his officers in the wardroom to brief them on a dramatic change to the ship’s 1967 program. HMAS Duchess ...

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Captain William Bligh, RN

Cavanagh, Paula, SBLT, RAN, RANC · Mar 21, 2010 ·

The Man and the Mutiny ‘Irascible, courageous, brilliant Bligh, because he had an ungovernable tongue and a short, explosive temper provoked rebellion where there was no justification and revolt where ...

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Australia’s Future Submarine Capability

Periodical, Semaphore · Mar 21, 2010 ·

  In the case of the submarine force, the Government takes the view that our strategic circumstances necessitate a substantially expanded submarine fleet of 12 boats … a larger force ...

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Coastwatchers – Thank God Such Men Lived

Wright, Ken · Mar 21, 2010 ·

Their contribution was out of all proportion to their numbers. The Coastwatchers Memorial Lighthouse was erected in 1959 at Kalibobo Point in Madang, Papua New Guinea, by public subscription and ...

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