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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 6-Conclusion )

Zammitt, Alan · Oct 25, 1982 ·

ON 21ST OCTOBER, six Sea Furies attacked the suspected invasion junks, sinking 7 and damaging 15. Two Sea Furies were detailed to assist HMAS Murchison negotiate shallow water hazards which ...

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Sleuth – A Pretty Little Ship

A.N. Other · Oct 23, 1982 ·

THERE ARE VERY FEW SHIPS AFLOAT that served in the Great War of 1914-18, and in Australia possibly the only one is a small fishing boat now under repair in ...

The Calliope Dry Dock Pictorial

A.N. Other · Oct 20, 1982 ·

On the 16th February 1888, HMS CALLIOPE led HMS DIAMOND into the newly completed dry dock at Calliope Point on Auckland’s north shore. This dock is still in use today ...

Preserved Naval Relics

A.N. Other · Oct 3, 1982 ·

A REGISTER OF NAVAL RELICS is being prepared by the Victorian Chapter of the Society, and when completed will be a very lengthy document. It is quite surprising where relics ...

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Family Saga -The Westons & The Johnstons – 1764 Onwards

Weston, Bert E. · Jun 30, 1982 ·

FROM TIME TO TIME the Naval Historical Review has featured the biography of some officer, living or dead, who had reached high rank and was noted for his service in ...

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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 5)

Zammitt, Alan · Jun 25, 1982 ·

CROSSING THE BAY OF BISCAY Sydney ran into bad weather, losing the starboard lower boom, and the canopies of the starboard motor boats being stove in. In the Mediterranean we ...

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Occasional Paper 170: The Eight Inch Gun Relining Programme

A.N. Other · Jun 5, 1982 ·

The QF 12 pounder 8 cwt Naval Field Gun

A.N. Other · Jun 1, 1982 ·

TO THOSE MEMBERS who are interested in the formation of the Ceremonial Field Gun Battery, and for those who have seen the Royal Navy’s field gun competition, the following notes ...

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HMNZS Irirangi – NZ Naval Base

Tonson, A.E. · Jun 1, 1982 ·

THE ENTRY OF THE JAPANESE into the war in 1941 brought unexpected communication problems for New Zealand, for there had previously been no major war in the South Pacific region. ...

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SS Pruth – The Moresby Wreck

Piper, Robert Kendall · Mar 30, 1982 ·

AN AURA OF MYSTERY has often surrounded the shipwreck on the reef off Moresby’s Ela Beach. Some rumours had her as a German raider which ran aground in the first ...

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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 4)

Zammitt, Alan · Mar 25, 1982 ·

THE KANIMBLA SAILED from Devonport on September 9th, called at Gibraltar, and arrived at Genoa, Italy, to embark displaced persons who were being brought to Australia to make a new ...

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Coal Ship — A Memory

Stevens, Cliff · Mar 5, 1982 ·

COALING SHIP is now a thing of the past, a forgotten evolution, but fifty years ago it was a much too frequent task. In this story, Cliff Stevens recalls the ...

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Spitfire – The First Australian Built Warship

Straczek, J.H., Sub-Lieutenant, RAN · Dec 31, 1981 ·

SINCE THE FORMATION of the Royal Australian Navy in 1911 hundreds of Australian built ships have served under the White Ensign, ships ranging in size and types from small Channel ...

The Fletcher Class Destroyers

NHSA Webmaster · Dec 28, 1981 ·

IN HIS BOOK “DESTROYERS“, Antony Preston refers to the Fletchers as ‘The Magnificent Fletchers’, and this is a very fitting description indeed. One would have to be an absolute bigot ...

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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 3)

Zammitt, Alan · Dec 25, 1981 ·

THE AUSTRALIA CONTINUED HER REFIT at Garden Island until May 1947. The ship’s company was greatly reduced, but there was always a reasonable number living on board. Harry Adlam left ...

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NZS Amokura – New Zealand’s First Training Ship

A.N. Other · Sep 28, 1981 ·

LITTLE IS KNOWN in Australia of Amokura, being a training ship operated by the New Zealand Government from 1905 until 1921, but by her former name of HMS Sparrow she ...

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Naval Hardware – Breech Loaders (Part2)

A.N. Other · Sep 28, 1981 ·

AFTER THE UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE of the Armstrong screw breech, a retrograde step was taken in returning to the Rifled Muzzle Loading system for the guns of both sea and land ...

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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 2)

Zammitt, Alan · Sep 25, 1981 ·

BY 1943 THE TIDE HAD TURNED against the Japanese and Australia was in action supporting landings at Arawe and Cape Gloucester in December of that year. In February 1944 Australia ...

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I’m Jesus, the Canteen Manager (Part 1)

Zammitt, Alan · Jun 25, 1981 ·

IN JUNE 1955 the ship’s company of HMAS Sydney fell in on the flight deck, and Captain George Oldham, DSC, RAN, presented to Vie Zammit, the ship’s canteen manager, a ...

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HMAS Shropshire

Gower, J.R., Captain, RN (Rtd) · Jun 23, 1981 ·

THIS IS THE STORY of a well known ship, seen through the eyes of a retired captain who commissioned the ship as a cadet in 1929. In 1927 the Admiralty ...

HMAS Parramatta Memorial

A.N. Other · Jun 20, 1981 ·

The memorial to the three ships bearing the proud title of HMAS Parramatta will be unveiled at 11.00 a.m. on Saturday, 13th June, 1981 at Queens Wharf Steps in the City ...

No. 2285 EOC – BL 6” Gun, HMAS Melbourne, history 1912 to present

The Dustman · Mar 25, 1981 ·

ON 22ND MAY 1912, a 6 inch gun with the number 2285 stamped into the breech ring was proof-fired at Woolwich, United Kingdom. The gun was one of a batch ...

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The Australian as seen by an Englishman

Crew, J.D.V. · Mar 25, 1981 ·

The author, Mr. J.D.V. Crew, was a Gunner (T) RN and this was from Quickmatch Booklet. 1944 IT WAS IN 1925 that I first met Royal Australian Naval personnel. They ...

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Success & Failure – The Story of the Torpedo Gunboat

Kurumba · Mar 25, 1981 ·

ORIGINALLY THERE WERE THIRTY-THREE BUILT, comprising five classes in all. They were the torpedo gunboats of the Royal Navy, a smaller but faster variant of the traditional cruiser, but capable ...

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Garden Island Dockyard 1943-46

Mackay, I. · Mar 23, 1981 ·

A View from the Accounts Branch IT WAS IN 1933 that I first became acquainted with the Royal Australian Navy and HMA Naval Establishments at Garden Island. At that time ...

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